This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ax88179_178a: fix bonding failure
to the 3.17-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:
ax88179_178a-fix-bonding-failure.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.17 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 Fri Nov 7 11:36:50 PST 2014
From: Ian Morgan <imorgan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 08:05:13 -0400
Subject: ax88179_178a: fix bonding failure
From: Ian Morgan <imorgan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 95ff88688781db2f64042e69bd499e518bbb36e5 ]
The following patch fixes a bug which causes the ax88179_178a driver to be
incapable of being added to a bond.
When I brought up the issue with the bonding maintainers, they indicated
that the real problem was with the NIC driver which must return zero for
success (of setting the MAC address). I see that several other NIC drivers
follow that pattern by either simply always returing zero, or by passing
through a negative (error) result while rewriting any positive return code
to zero. With that same philisophy applied to the ax88179_178a driver, it
allows it to work correctly with the bonding driver.
I believe this is suitable for queuing in -stable, as it's a small, simple,
and obvious fix that corrects a defect with no other known workaround.
This patch is against vanilla 3.17(.0).
Signed-off-by: Ian Morgan <imorgan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
drivers/net/usb/ax88179_178a.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/usb/ax88179_178a.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/net/usb/ax88179_178a.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/ax88179_178a.c
@@ -937,6 +937,7 @@ static int ax88179_set_mac_addr(struct n
{
struct usbnet *dev = netdev_priv(net);
struct sockaddr *addr = p;
+ int ret;
if (netif_running(net))
return -EBUSY;
@@ -946,8 +947,12 @@ static int ax88179_set_mac_addr(struct n
memcpy(net->dev_addr, addr->sa_data, ETH_ALEN);
/* Set the MAC address */
- return ax88179_write_cmd(dev, AX_ACCESS_MAC, AX_NODE_ID, ETH_ALEN,
+ ret = ax88179_write_cmd(dev, AX_ACCESS_MAC, AX_NODE_ID, ETH_ALEN,
ETH_ALEN, net->dev_addr);
+ if (ret < 0)
+ return ret;
+
+ return 0;
}
static const struct net_device_ops ax88179_netdev_ops = {
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from imorgan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.17/ax88179_178a-fix-bonding-failure.patch
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