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

    sh_eth: Fix lost MAC address on kexec

to the 3.19-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:
     sh_eth-fix-lost-mac-address-on-kexec.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.19 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From foo@baz Wed Mar 11 11:44:33 CET 2015
From: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 17:16:26 +0100
Subject: sh_eth: Fix lost MAC address on kexec

From: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit a14c7d15ca91b444e77df08b916befdce77562ab ]

Commit 740c7f31c094703c ("sh_eth: Ensure DMA engines are stopped before
freeing buffers") added a call to sh_eth_reset() to the
sh_eth_set_ringparam() and sh_eth_close() paths.

However, setting the software reset bit(s) in the EDMR register resets
the MAC Address Registers to zero. Hence after kexec, the new kernel
doesn't detect a valid MAC address and assigns a random MAC address,
breaking DHCP.

Set the MAC address again after the reset in sh_eth_dev_exit() to fix
this.

Tested on r8a7740/armadillo (GETHER) and r8a7791/koelsch (FAST_RCAR).

Fixes: 740c7f31c094703c ("sh_eth: Ensure DMA engines are stopped before freeing 
buffers")
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c
@@ -1392,6 +1392,9 @@ static void sh_eth_dev_exit(struct net_d
        msleep(2); /* max frame time at 10 Mbps < 1250 us */
        sh_eth_get_stats(ndev);
        sh_eth_reset(ndev);
+
+       /* Set MAC address again */
+       update_mac_address(ndev);
 }
 
 /* free Tx skb function */


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] 
are

queue-3.19/sh_eth-fix-lost-mac-address-on-kexec.patch
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