From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756534AbbCFURi (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Mar 2015 15:17:38 -0500 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]:48234 "EHLO youngberry.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756199AbbCFURf (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Mar 2015 15:17:35 -0500 Message-ID: <54FA0B58.3040806@canonical.com> Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2015 15:17:28 -0500 From: Joseph Salisbury User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg KH CC: prashant@broadcom.com, mchan@broadcom.com, "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , LKML , "stable@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH][v3.18.y][v3.19.y] tg3: Hold tp->lock before calling tg3_halt() from tg3_init_one() References: <54F8CDDE.6090002@canonical.com> In-Reply-To: <54F8CDDE.6090002@canonical.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 03/05/2015 04:42 PM, Joseph Salisbury wrote: > Hello, > > Please consider including mainline commit > d0af71a3573f1217b140c60b66f1a9b335fb058b in the next v3.18.y and v3.19.y > stable releases. It was included in the mainline tree as of v4.0-rc1. > It has been tested and confirmed to resolve: > http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1428111 . > > This commit fixes a regression introduced going from 3.16 to 3.19, so it > may not be needed in earlier than 3.18 stable releases. > > commit d0af71a3573f1217b140c60b66f1a9b335fb058b > Author: Jun'ichi Nomura \(NEC\) > Date: Thu Feb 12 01:26:24 2015 +0000 > > tg3: Hold tp->lock before calling tg3_halt() from tg3_init_one() > > > Sincerely, > Joseph Salisbury > > After some further testing, it looks like only 3.19 is affected by the bug. The upstream 3.18.y stable kernel does not require the commit. Thanks, Joe