This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
usb: gadget: Fix g_ether interface link status
to the 3.4-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:
usb-gadget-fix-g_ether-interface-link-status.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 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 31bde1ceaa873bcaecd49e829bfabceacc4c512d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kevin Cernekee <cerne...@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 21:11:22 -0700
Subject: usb: gadget: Fix g_ether interface link status
From: Kevin Cernekee <cerne...@gmail.com>
commit 31bde1ceaa873bcaecd49e829bfabceacc4c512d upstream.
A "usb0" interface that has never been connected to a host has an unknown
operstate, and therefore the IFF_RUNNING flag is (incorrectly) asserted
when queried by ifconfig, ifplugd, etc. This is a result of calling
netif_carrier_off() too early in the probe function; it should be called
after register_netdev().
Similar problems have been fixed in many other drivers, e.g.:
e826eafa6 (bonding: Call netif_carrier_off after register_netdevice)
0d672e9f8 (drivers/net: Call netif_carrier_off at the end of the probe)
6a3c869a6 (cxgb4: fix reported state of interfaces without link)
Fix is to move netif_carrier_off() to the end of the function.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee <cerne...@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <ba...@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/usb/gadget/u_ether.c | 12 ++++++------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/usb/gadget/u_ether.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/gadget/u_ether.c
@@ -796,12 +796,6 @@ int gether_setup(struct usb_gadget *g, u
SET_ETHTOOL_OPS(net, &ops);
- /* two kinds of host-initiated state changes:
- * - iff DATA transfer is active, carrier is "on"
- * - tx queueing enabled if open *and* carrier is "on"
- */
- netif_carrier_off(net);
-
dev->gadget = g;
SET_NETDEV_DEV(net, &g->dev);
SET_NETDEV_DEVTYPE(net, &gadget_type);
@@ -815,6 +809,12 @@ int gether_setup(struct usb_gadget *g, u
INFO(dev, "HOST MAC %pM\n", dev->host_mac);
the_dev = dev;
+
+ /* two kinds of host-initiated state changes:
+ * - iff DATA transfer is active, carrier is "on"
+ * - tx queueing enabled if open *and* carrier is "on"
+ */
+ netif_carrier_off(net);
}
return status;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from cerne...@gmail.com are
queue-3.4/usb-gadget-fix-g_ether-interface-link-status.patch
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