Hello:
This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (refs/heads/master):
On Fri, 5 Mar 2021 14:17:29 -0800 you wrote:
netif_device_attach() will unpause the queues so we can't call it before __alx_open(). This went undetected until commit b0999223f224 ("alx: add ability to allocate and free alx_napi structures") but now if stack tries to xmit immediately on resume before __alx_open() we'll crash on the NAPI being null:
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000198 CPU: 0 PID: 12 Comm: ksoftirqd/0 Tainted: G OE 5.10.0-3-amd64 #1 Debian 5.10.13-1 Hardware name: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. To be filled by O.E.M./H77-D3H, BIOS F15 11/14/2013 RIP: 0010:alx_start_xmit+0x34/0x650 [alx] Code: 41 56 41 55 41 54 55 53 48 83 ec 20 0f b7 57 7c 8b 8e b0 0b 00 00 39 ca 72 06 89 d0 31 d2 f7 f1 89 d2 48 8b 84 df RSP: 0018:ffffb09240083d28 EFLAGS: 00010297 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffa04d80ae7800 RCX: 0000000000000004 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffa04d80afa000 RDI: ffffa04e92e92a00 RBP: 0000000000000042 R08: 0000000000000100 R09: ffffa04ea3146700 R10: 0000000000000014 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffa04e92e92100 R13: 0000000000000001 R14: ffffa04e92e92a00 R15: ffffa04e92e92a00 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffa0508f600000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 i915 0000:00:02.0: vblank wait timed out on crtc 0 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000000198 CR3: 000000004460a001 CR4: 00000000001706f0 Call Trace: dev_hard_start_xmit+0xc7/0x1e0 sch_direct_xmit+0x10f/0x310
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Here is the summary with links: - [net] ethernet: alx: fix order of calls on resume https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/a4dcfbc4ee22
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