This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net/mlx5: Stay in polling mode when command EQ destroy fails to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: net-mlx5-stay-in-polling-mode-when-command-eq-destroy-fails.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Wed Feb 28 16:23:28 CET 2018 From: Moshe Shemesh <moshe@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 15:23:51 +0200 Subject: net/mlx5: Stay in polling mode when command EQ destroy fails From: Moshe Shemesh <moshe@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit a2fba188fd5eadd6061bef4f2f2577a43231ebf3 ] During unload, on mlx5_stop_eqs we move command interface from events mode to polling mode, but if command interface EQ destroy fail we move back to events mode. That's wrong since even if we fail to destroy command interface EQ, we do release its irq, so no interrupts will be received. Fixes: e126ba97dba9 ("mlx5: Add driver for Mellanox Connect-IB adapters") Signed-off-by: Moshe Shemesh <moshe@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eq.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eq.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eq.c @@ -802,11 +802,9 @@ void mlx5_stop_eqs(struct mlx5_core_dev mlx5_cmd_use_polling(dev); err = mlx5_destroy_unmap_eq(dev, &table->cmd_eq); - if (err) { + if (err) mlx5_core_err(dev, "failed to destroy command eq, err(%d)\n", err); - mlx5_cmd_use_events(dev); - } } int mlx5_core_eq_query(struct mlx5_core_dev *dev, struct mlx5_eq *eq, Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from moshe@xxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.14/net-mlx5e-fix-ets-bw-check.patch queue-4.14/net-mlx5-stay-in-polling-mode-when-command-eq-destroy-fails.patch queue-4.14/net-mlx5-cleanup-irqs-in-case-of-unload-failure.patch