This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled qede: Fix qedr link update 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: qede-fix-qedr-link-update.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 Mar 28 18:38:30 CEST 2018 From: Michal Kalderon <Michal.Kalderon@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2018 14:56:53 +0200 Subject: qede: Fix qedr link update From: Michal Kalderon <Michal.Kalderon@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 4609adc27175839408359822523de7247d56c87f ] Link updates were not reported to qedr correctly. Leading to cases where a link could be down, but qedr would see it as up. In addition, once qede was loaded, link state would be up, regardless of the actual link state. Signed-off-by: Michal Kalderon <michal.kalderon@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ariel Elior <ariel.elior@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede_main.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede_main.c @@ -2066,8 +2066,6 @@ static int qede_load(struct qede_dev *ed link_params.link_up = true; edev->ops->common->set_link(edev->cdev, &link_params); - qede_rdma_dev_event_open(edev); - edev->state = QEDE_STATE_OPEN; DP_INFO(edev, "Ending successfully qede load\n"); @@ -2168,12 +2166,14 @@ static void qede_link_update(void *dev, DP_NOTICE(edev, "Link is up\n"); netif_tx_start_all_queues(edev->ndev); netif_carrier_on(edev->ndev); + qede_rdma_dev_event_open(edev); } } else { if (netif_carrier_ok(edev->ndev)) { DP_NOTICE(edev, "Link is down\n"); netif_tx_disable(edev->ndev); netif_carrier_off(edev->ndev); + qede_rdma_dev_event_close(edev); } } } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from Michal.Kalderon@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.14/qed-fix-non-tcp-packets-should-be-dropped-on-iwarp-ll2-connection.patch queue-4.14/qede-fix-qedr-link-update.patch