Patch "hdlc_ppp: carrier detect ok, don't turn off negotiation" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    hdlc_ppp: carrier detect ok, don't turn off negotiation

to the 3.18-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:
     hdlc_ppp-carrier-detect-ok-don-t-turn-off-negotiation.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 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 Mar  8 10:42:32 PST 2018
From: Denis Du <dudenis2000@yahoo.ca>
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2018 16:51:42 -0500
Subject: hdlc_ppp: carrier detect ok, don't turn off negotiation

From: Denis Du <dudenis2000@yahoo.ca>


[ Upstream commit b6c3bad1ba83af1062a7ff6986d9edc4f3d7fc8e ]

Sometimes when physical lines have a just good noise to make the protocol
handshaking fail, but the carrier detect still good. Then after remove of
the noise, nobody will trigger this protocol to be start again to cause
the link to never come back. The fix is when the carrier is still on, not
terminate the protocol handshaking.

Signed-off-by: Denis Du <dudenis2000@yahoo.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/net/wan/hdlc_ppp.c |    5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/net/wan/hdlc_ppp.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wan/hdlc_ppp.c
@@ -574,7 +574,10 @@ static void ppp_timer(unsigned long arg)
 			ppp_cp_event(proto->dev, proto->pid, TO_GOOD, 0, 0,
 				     0, NULL);
 			proto->restart_counter--;
-		} else
+		} else if (netif_carrier_ok(proto->dev))
+			ppp_cp_event(proto->dev, proto->pid, TO_GOOD, 0, 0,
+				     0, NULL);
+		else
 			ppp_cp_event(proto->dev, proto->pid, TO_BAD, 0, 0,
 				     0, NULL);
 		break;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dudenis2000@yahoo.ca are

queue-3.18/hdlc_ppp-carrier-detect-ok-don-t-turn-off-negotiation.patch