Why hasn't the patch "r8152: Fix a deadlock by doubly PM resume" back ported to stable branches?

Why hasn't the patch "r8152: Fix a deadlock by doubly PM resume" back ported to stable branches?

[Heyi Guo]

Hi all,

We found that below bug fix patch had not been back ported to stable 
branches, like linux-5.10.y. Is there any special reason?

commit 776ac63a986d211286230c4fd70f85390eabedcd
Author:     Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
AuthorDate: Wed Jul 14 19:00:22 2021 +0200
Commit:     David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
CommitDate: Wed Jul 14 14:57:55 2021 -0700

     r8152: Fix a deadlock by doubly PM resume

     r8152 driver sets up the MAC address at reset-resume, while
     rtl8152_set_mac_address() has the temporary autopm get/put. This may
     lead to a deadlock as the PM lock has been already taken for the
     execution of the runtime PM callback.

     This patch adds the workaround to avoid the superfluous autpm when
     called from rtl8152_reset_resume().

     Link: https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1186194
     Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
     Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Thanks,

Guo, Heyi

Re: Why hasn't the patch "r8152: Fix a deadlock by doubly PM resume" back ported to stable branches?

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 02:04:09PM +0800, Heyi Guo wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> We found that below bug fix patch had not been back ported to stable
> branches, like linux-5.10.y. Is there any special reason?
> 
> commit 776ac63a986d211286230c4fd70f85390eabedcd
> Author:     Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
> AuthorDate: Wed Jul 14 19:00:22 2021 +0200
> Commit:     David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> CommitDate: Wed Jul 14 14:57:55 2021 -0700
> 
>     r8152: Fix a deadlock by doubly PM resume
> 
>     r8152 driver sets up the MAC address at reset-resume, while
>     rtl8152_set_mac_address() has the temporary autopm get/put. This may
>     lead to a deadlock as the PM lock has been already taken for the
>     execution of the runtime PM callback.
> 
>     This patch adds the workaround to avoid the superfluous autpm when
>     called from rtl8152_reset_resume().
> 
>     Link: https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1186194
>     Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
>     Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Because it was not marked to be backported at all.  If you feel it
should be, please send a tested version to stable@vger.kernel.org for
inclusion.

thanks,

greg k-h