Patch "r8152: avoid start_xmit to schedule napi when napi is disabled" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

Patch "r8152: avoid start_xmit to schedule napi when napi is disabled" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[gregkh]

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

    r8152: avoid start_xmit to schedule napi when napi is disabled

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:
     r8152-avoid-start_xmit-to-schedule-napi-when-napi-is-disabled.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 foo@baz Thu Jun 15 16:23:30 CEST 2017
From: hayeswang <hayeswang@realtek.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 09:38:32 +0800
Subject: r8152: avoid start_xmit to schedule napi when napi is disabled

From: hayeswang <hayeswang@realtek.com>


[ Upstream commit de9bf29dd6e4a8a874cb92f8901aed50a9d0b1d3 ]

Stop the tx when the napi is disabled to prevent napi_schedule() is
called.

Signed-off-by: Hayes Wang <hayeswang@realtek.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/usb/r8152.c |    8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/usb/r8152.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/r8152.c
@@ -3158,10 +3158,13 @@ static void set_carrier(struct r8152 *tp
 		if (!netif_carrier_ok(netdev)) {
 			tp->rtl_ops.enable(tp);
 			set_bit(RTL8152_SET_RX_MODE, &tp->flags);
+			netif_stop_queue(netdev);
 			napi_disable(&tp->napi);
 			netif_carrier_on(netdev);
 			rtl_start_rx(tp);
 			napi_enable(&tp->napi);
+			netif_wake_queue(netdev);
+			netif_info(tp, link, netdev, "carrier on\n");
 		}
 	} else {
 		if (netif_carrier_ok(netdev)) {
@@ -3169,6 +3172,7 @@ static void set_carrier(struct r8152 *tp
 			napi_disable(&tp->napi);
 			tp->rtl_ops.disable(tp);
 			napi_enable(&tp->napi);
+			netif_info(tp, link, netdev, "carrier off\n");
 		}
 	}
 }
@@ -3518,12 +3522,12 @@ static int rtl8152_pre_reset(struct usb_
 	if (!netif_running(netdev))
 		return 0;
 
+	netif_stop_queue(netdev);
 	napi_disable(&tp->napi);
 	clear_bit(WORK_ENABLE, &tp->flags);
 	usb_kill_urb(tp->intr_urb);
 	cancel_delayed_work_sync(&tp->schedule);
 	if (netif_carrier_ok(netdev)) {
-		netif_stop_queue(netdev);
 		mutex_lock(&tp->control);
 		tp->rtl_ops.disable(tp);
 		mutex_unlock(&tp->control);
@@ -3551,10 +3555,10 @@ static int rtl8152_post_reset(struct usb
 		rtl_start_rx(tp);
 		rtl8152_set_rx_mode(netdev);
 		mutex_unlock(&tp->control);
-		netif_wake_queue(netdev);
 	}
 
 	napi_enable(&tp->napi);
+	netif_wake_queue(netdev);
 	usb_submit_urb(tp->intr_urb, GFP_KERNEL);
 
 	if (!list_empty(&tp->rx_done))


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hayeswang@realtek.com are

queue-4.9/r8152-fix-rtl8152_post_reset-function.patch
queue-4.9/r8152-re-schedule-napi-for-tx.patch
queue-4.9/r8152-avoid-start_xmit-to-call-napi_schedule-during-autosuspend.patch
queue-4.9/r8152-avoid-start_xmit-to-schedule-napi-when-napi-is-disabled.patch
queue-4.9/r8152-check-rx-after-napi-is-enabled.patch