This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

ibmvnic: Set state UP

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: ibmvnic-set-state-up.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 Wed Dec 20 18:17:52 CET 2017

From: Mick Tarsel mjtarsel@linux.vnet.ibm.com Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 13:53:18 -0700 Subject: ibmvnic: Set state UP

From: Mick Tarsel mjtarsel@linux.vnet.ibm.com

[ Upstream commit e876a8a7e9dd89dc88c12ca2e81beb478dbe9897 ]

State is initially reported as UNKNOWN. Before register call netif_carrier_off(). Once the device is opened, call netif_carrier_on() in order to set the state to UP.

Signed-off-by: Mick Tarsel mjtarsel@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c @@ -927,6 +927,7 @@ static int ibmvnic_open(struct net_devic }

rc = __ibmvnic_open(netdev); + netif_carrier_on(netdev); mutex_unlock(&adapter->reset_lock);

return rc; @@ -3899,6 +3900,7 @@ static int ibmvnic_probe(struct vio_dev if (rc) goto ibmvnic_init_fail;

+ netif_carrier_off(netdev); rc = register_netdev(netdev); if (rc) { dev_err(&dev->dev, "failed to register netdev rc=%d\n", rc);

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mjtarsel@linux.vnet.ibm.com are

queue-4.14/ibmvnic-set-state-up.patch