Patch "can: gs_usb: fix busy loop if no more TX context is available" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    can: gs_usb: fix busy loop if no more TX context is available

to the 4.9-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:
     can-gs_usb-fix-busy-loop-if-no-more-tx-context-is-available.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 97819f943063b622eca44d3644067c190dc75039 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 18:37:14 +0200
Subject: can: gs_usb: fix busy loop if no more TX context is available

From: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com>

commit 97819f943063b622eca44d3644067c190dc75039 upstream.

If sending messages with no cable connected, it quickly happens that
there is no more TX context available. Then "gs_can_start_xmit()"
returns with "NETDEV_TX_BUSY" and the upper layer does retry
immediately keeping the CPU busy. To fix that issue, I moved
"atomic_dec(&dev->active_tx_urbs)" from "gs_usb_xmit_callback()" to
the TX done handling in "gs_usb_receive_bulk_callback()". Renaming
"active_tx_urbs" to "active_tx_contexts" and moving it into
"gs_[alloc|free]_tx_context()" would also make sense.

Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/net/can/usb/gs_usb.c |   10 ++--------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/can/usb/gs_usb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/can/usb/gs_usb.c
@@ -375,6 +375,8 @@ static void gs_usb_receive_bulk_callback
 
 		gs_free_tx_context(txc);
 
+		atomic_dec(&dev->active_tx_urbs);
+
 		netif_wake_queue(netdev);
 	}
 
@@ -463,14 +465,6 @@ static void gs_usb_xmit_callback(struct
 			  urb->transfer_buffer_length,
 			  urb->transfer_buffer,
 			  urb->transfer_dma);
-
-	atomic_dec(&dev->active_tx_urbs);
-
-	if (!netif_device_present(netdev))
-		return;
-
-	if (netif_queue_stopped(netdev))
-		netif_wake_queue(netdev);
 }
 
 static netdev_tx_t gs_can_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from wg@grandegger.com are

queue-4.9/can-gs_usb-fix-busy-loop-if-no-more-tx-context-is-available.patch