From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Shannon Nelson <snelson@pensando.io>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Request backport of ionic driver patch for 5.10 stable
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2021 10:53:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YAFmKvI+fSSGzusE@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3ebd98b2-e680-13c4-2e42-0a6ebafc243b@pensando.io>
On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 01:27:03PM -0800, Shannon Nelson wrote:
> Please apply upstream commit 8f56bc4dc101 ("ionic: start queues before
> announcing link up") to 5.10.
>
> When initially discussed, the implied race condition was still theoretical.
> Since then, a case has been found to generate the race issue and cause a
> failure to bring up the netdev interface by having the device in a bond and
> the bond driver trying to bring up the device on the netif_carrier_on()
> notification but before the queues have been started.
>
> This should be applied to 5.10 stable.
Now queued up, thanks.
greg k-h
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2021-01-12 21:27 [PATCH] Request backport of ionic driver patch for 5.10 stable Shannon Nelson
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