backport commit ("f421031e3ff0 net: stmmac: reset Tx desc base address before restarting") to linux-5.4-stable

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Fri Sep 24 02:49:42 PDT 2021


On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 05:37:19PM +0800, Macpaul Lin wrote:
> Hi reviewers,
> 
> I suggest to backport 
> commit "f421031e3ff0 net: stmmac: reset Tx desc base address before
> restarting"
> to linux-5.4 stable tree.
> 
> This patch reports a register usage correction for an address
> inconsistency issue.
> "If this register is not changed when the ST bit is set to 0, then
> the DMA takes the descriptor address where it was stopped earlier."
> 
> commit: f421031e3ff0dd288a6e1bbde9aa41a25bb814e6
> subject: net: stmmac: reset Tx desc base address before restarting
> kernel version to apply to: Linux-5.4

Now queued up, thanks.

greg k-h



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