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

phylink: ensure we take the link down when phylink_stop() is called

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: phylink-ensure-we-take-the-link-down-when-phylink_stop-is-called.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 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 Fri Feb 23 11:45:09 CET 2018

From: Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 13:59:26 +0000 Subject: phylink: ensure we take the link down when phylink_stop() is called

From: Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk

[ Upstream commit 2012b7d6b2868c532f22d9172c8b24611637eb48 ]

Ensure that we tell the MAC to take the link down when phylink_stop() is called, and that this completes prior to phylink_stop() returns.

Reported-by: Florian Fainelli f.fainelli@gmail.com Tested-by: Florian Fainelli f.fainelli@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk 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/phy/phylink.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/drivers/net/phy/phylink.c +++ b/drivers/net/phy/phylink.c @@ -772,6 +772,7 @@ void phylink_stop(struct phylink *pl) sfp_upstream_stop(pl->sfp_bus);

set_bit(PHYLINK_DISABLE_STOPPED, &pl->phylink_disable_state); + queue_work(system_power_efficient_wq, &pl->resolve); flush_work(&pl->resolve); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(phylink_stop);

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk are

queue-4.14/sfp-fix-rx_los-signal-handling.patch queue-4.14/drm-armada-fix-leak-of-crtc-structure.patch queue-4.14/arm-8743-1-bl_switcher-add-module_license-tag.patch queue-4.14/phylink-ensure-we-take-the-link-down-when-phylink_stop-is-called.patch