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

net: mvneta: eliminate wrong call to handle rx descriptor error

to the 4.9-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: net-mvneta-eliminate-wrong-call-to-handle-rx-descriptor-error.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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 2eecb2e04abb62ef8ea7b43e1a46bdb5b99d1bf8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Yelena Krivosheev yelena@marvell.com Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 17:59:47 +0100 Subject: net: mvneta: eliminate wrong call to handle rx descriptor error

From: Yelena Krivosheev yelena@marvell.com

commit 2eecb2e04abb62ef8ea7b43e1a46bdb5b99d1bf8 upstream.

There are few reasons in mvneta_rx_swbm() function when received packet is dropped. mvneta_rx_error() should be called only if error bit [16] is set in rx descriptor.

[gregory.clement@free-electrons.com: add fixes tag] Fixes: dc35a10f68d3 ("net: mvneta: bm: add support for hardware buffer management") Signed-off-by: Yelena Krivosheev yelena@marvell.com Tested-by: Dmitri Epshtein dima@marvell.com Signed-off-by: Gregory CLEMENT gregory.clement@free-electrons.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c @@ -1909,9 +1909,9 @@ static int mvneta_rx_swbm(struct mvneta_

if (!mvneta_rxq_desc_is_first_last(rx_status) || (rx_status & MVNETA_RXD_ERR_SUMMARY)) { + mvneta_rx_error(pp, rx_desc); err_drop_frame: dev->stats.rx_errors++; - mvneta_rx_error(pp, rx_desc); /* leave the descriptor untouched */ continue; }

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from yelena@marvell.com are

queue-4.9/net-mvneta-eliminate-wrong-call-to-handle-rx-descriptor-error.patch queue-4.9/net-mvneta-clear-interface-link-status-on-port-disable.patch queue-4.9/net-mvneta-use-proper-rxq_number-in-loop-on-rx-queues.patch