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

    via-velocity: fix netif_receive_skb use in irq disabled section.

to the 3.12-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:
     via-velocity-fix-netif_receive_skb-use-in-irq-disabled-section.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.12 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 Thu Dec  5 16:16:39 PST 2013
From: Francois Romieu <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 00:40:58 +0100
Subject: via-velocity: fix netif_receive_skb use in irq disabled section.

From: Francois Romieu <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit bc9627e7e918a85e906c1a3f6d01d9b8ef911a96 ]

2fdac010bdcf10a30711b6924612dfc40daf19b8 ("via-velocity.c: update napi
implementation") overlooked an irq disabling spinlock when the Rx part
of the NAPI poll handler was converted from netif_rx to netif_receive_skb.

NAPI Rx processing can be taken out of the locked section with a pair of
napi_{disable / enable} since it only races with the MTU change function.

An heavier rework of the NAPI locking would be able to perform NAPI Tx
before Rx where I simply removed one of velocity_tx_srv calls.

References: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1022733
Fixes: 2fdac010bdcf (via-velocity.c: update napi implementation)
Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Alex A. Schmidt <[email protected]>
Cc: Jamie Heilman <[email protected]>
Cc: Michele Baldessari <[email protected]>
Cc: Julia Lawall <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/via/via-velocity.c |   11 ++++++-----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/via/via-velocity.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/via/via-velocity.c
@@ -2172,16 +2172,13 @@ static int velocity_poll(struct napi_str
        unsigned int rx_done;
        unsigned long flags;
 
-       spin_lock_irqsave(&vptr->lock, flags);
        /*
         * Do rx and tx twice for performance (taken from the VIA
         * out-of-tree driver).
         */
-       rx_done = velocity_rx_srv(vptr, budget / 2);
-       velocity_tx_srv(vptr);
-       rx_done += velocity_rx_srv(vptr, budget - rx_done);
+       rx_done = velocity_rx_srv(vptr, budget);
+       spin_lock_irqsave(&vptr->lock, flags);
        velocity_tx_srv(vptr);
-
        /* If budget not fully consumed, exit the polling mode */
        if (rx_done < budget) {
                napi_complete(napi);
@@ -2342,6 +2339,8 @@ static int velocity_change_mtu(struct ne
                if (ret < 0)
                        goto out_free_tmp_vptr_1;
 
+               napi_disable(&vptr->napi);
+
                spin_lock_irqsave(&vptr->lock, flags);
 
                netif_stop_queue(dev);
@@ -2362,6 +2361,8 @@ static int velocity_change_mtu(struct ne
 
                velocity_give_many_rx_descs(vptr);
 
+               napi_enable(&vptr->napi);
+
                mac_enable_int(vptr->mac_regs);
                netif_start_queue(dev);
 


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

queue-3.12/via-velocity-fix-netif_receive_skb-use-in-irq-disabled-section.patch
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