This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net/mlx4_en: Fixed crash when port type is changed
to the 3.12-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-mlx4_en-fixed-crash-when-port-type-is-changed.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.12 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 Thu Dec 5 16:16:37 PST 2013
From: Amir Vadai <amirv@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 11:08:30 +0200
Subject: net/mlx4_en: Fixed crash when port type is changed
From: Amir Vadai <amirv@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 1ec4864b10171b0691ee196d7006ae56d2c153f2 ]
timecounter_init() was was called only after first potential
timecounter_read().
Moved mlx4_en_init_timestamp() before mlx4_en_init_netdev()
Signed-off-by: Amir Vadai <amirv@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_main.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_main.c
@@ -264,6 +264,10 @@ static void *mlx4_en_add(struct mlx4_dev
mlx4_foreach_port(i, dev, MLX4_PORT_TYPE_ETH)
mdev->port_cnt++;
+ /* Initialize time stamp mechanism */
+ if (mdev->dev->caps.flags2 & MLX4_DEV_CAP_FLAG2_TS)
+ mlx4_en_init_timestamp(mdev);
+
mlx4_foreach_port(i, dev, MLX4_PORT_TYPE_ETH) {
if (!dev->caps.comp_pool) {
mdev->profile.prof[i].rx_ring_num =
@@ -301,10 +305,6 @@ static void *mlx4_en_add(struct mlx4_dev
mdev->pndev[i] = NULL;
}
- /* Initialize time stamp mechanism */
- if (mdev->dev->caps.flags2 & MLX4_DEV_CAP_FLAG2_TS)
- mlx4_en_init_timestamp(mdev);
-
return mdev;
err_mr:
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from amirv@xxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.12/net-mlx4_en-fixed-crash-when-port-type-is-changed.patch
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