This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
phylink: ensure we report link down when LOS asserted
to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: phylink-ensure-we-report-link-down-when-los-asserted.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@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From foo@baz Sat Jan 13 10:51:05 CET 2018
From: Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2017 23:15:12 +0000 Subject: phylink: ensure we report link down when LOS asserted
From: Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk
[ Upstream commit ac817f5ad066697e4d4d35ec68c974eba2c5f17a ]
Although we disable the netdev carrier, we fail to report in the kernel log that the link went down. Fix this.
Fixes: 9525ae83959b ("phylink: add phylink infrastructure") Signed-off-by: Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli f.fainelli@gmail.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/net/phy/phylink.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/phy/phylink.c +++ b/drivers/net/phy/phylink.c @@ -1428,9 +1428,8 @@ static void phylink_sfp_link_down(void * WARN_ON(!lockdep_rtnl_is_held());
set_bit(PHYLINK_DISABLE_LINK, &pl->phylink_disable_state); + queue_work(system_power_efficient_wq, &pl->resolve); flush_work(&pl->resolve); - - netif_carrier_off(pl->netdev); }
static void phylink_sfp_link_up(void *upstream)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk are
queue-4.14/sfp-fix-sfp-bus-oops-when-removing-socket-upstream.patch queue-4.14/phylink-ensure-we-report-link-down-when-los-asserted.patch