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

r8152: prevent the driver from transmitting packets with carrier off

to the 4.9-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: r8152-prevent-the-driver-from-transmitting-packets-with-carrier-off.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 Dec 21 09:02:40 CET 2017

From: hayeswang hayeswang@realtek.com Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 19:14:19 +0800 Subject: r8152: prevent the driver from transmitting packets with carrier off

From: hayeswang hayeswang@realtek.com

[ Upstream commit 2f25abe6bac573928a990ccbdac75873add8127e ]

The linking status may be changed when autosuspend. And, after autoresume, the driver may try to transmit packets when the device is carrier off, because the interrupt transfer doesn't update the linking status, yet. And, if the device is in ALDPS mode, the device would stop working.

The another similar case is 1. unplug the cable. 2. interrupt transfer queue a work_queue for linking change. 3. device enters the ALDPS mode. 4. a tx occurs before the work_queue 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 | 18 ++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/usb/r8152.c +++ b/drivers/net/usb/r8152.c @@ -1294,6 +1294,7 @@ static void intr_callback(struct urb *ur } } else { if (netif_carrier_ok(tp->netdev)) { + netif_stop_queue(tp->netdev); set_bit(RTL8152_LINK_CHG, &tp->flags); schedule_delayed_work(&tp->schedule, 0); } @@ -3167,6 +3168,9 @@ static void set_carrier(struct r8152 *tp napi_enable(&tp->napi); netif_wake_queue(netdev); netif_info(tp, link, netdev, "carrier on\n"); + } else if (netif_queue_stopped(netdev) && + skb_queue_len(&tp->tx_queue) < tp->tx_qlen) { + netif_wake_queue(netdev); } } else { if (netif_carrier_ok(netdev)) { @@ -3700,8 +3704,18 @@ static int rtl8152_resume(struct usb_int tp->rtl_ops.autosuspend_en(tp, false); napi_disable(&tp->napi); set_bit(WORK_ENABLE, &tp->flags); - if (netif_carrier_ok(tp->netdev)) - rtl_start_rx(tp); + + if (netif_carrier_ok(tp->netdev)) { + if (rtl8152_get_speed(tp) & LINK_STATUS) { + rtl_start_rx(tp); + } else { + netif_carrier_off(tp->netdev); + tp->rtl_ops.disable(tp); + netif_info(tp, link, tp->netdev, + "linking down\n"); + } + } + napi_enable(&tp->napi); clear_bit(SELECTIVE_SUSPEND, &tp->flags); smp_mb__after_atomic();

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

queue-4.9/r8152-fix-the-list-rx_done-may-be-used-without-initialization.patch queue-4.9/r8152-prevent-the-driver-from-transmitting-packets-with-carrier-off.patch queue-4.9/r8152-fix-the-rx-early-size-of-rtl8153.patch