Hello: This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (refs/heads/master): On Fri, 5 Mar 2021 14:17:29 -0800 you wrote: > netif_device_attach() will unpause the queues so we can't call > it before __alx_open(). This went undetected until > commit b0999223f224 ("alx: add ability to allocate and free > alx_napi structures") but now if stack tries to xmit immediately > on resume before __alx_open() we'll crash on the NAPI being null: > > BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000198 > CPU: 0 PID: 12 Comm: ksoftirqd/0 Tainted: G OE 5.10.0-3-amd64 #1 Debian 5.10.13-1 > Hardware name: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. To be filled by O.E.M./H77-D3H, BIOS F15 11/14/2013 > RIP: 0010:alx_start_xmit+0x34/0x650 [alx] > Code: 41 56 41 55 41 54 55 53 48 83 ec 20 0f b7 57 7c 8b 8e b0 > 0b 00 00 39 ca 72 06 89 d0 31 d2 f7 f1 89 d2 48 8b 84 df > RSP: 0018:ffffb09240083d28 EFLAGS: 00010297 > RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffa04d80ae7800 RCX: 0000000000000004 > RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffa04d80afa000 RDI: ffffa04e92e92a00 > RBP: 0000000000000042 R08: 0000000000000100 R09: ffffa04ea3146700 > R10: 0000000000000014 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffa04e92e92100 > R13: 0000000000000001 R14: ffffa04e92e92a00 R15: ffffa04e92e92a00 > FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffa0508f600000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 > i915 0000:00:02.0: vblank wait timed out on crtc 0 > CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 > CR2: 0000000000000198 CR3: 000000004460a001 CR4: 00000000001706f0 > Call Trace: > dev_hard_start_xmit+0xc7/0x1e0 > sch_direct_xmit+0x10f/0x310 > > [...] Here is the summary with links: - [net] ethernet: alx: fix order of calls on resume https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/a4dcfbc4ee22 You are awesome, thank you! -- Deet-doot-dot, I am a bot. https://korg.docs.kernel.org/patchwork/pwbot.html