Patch "phylink: ensure we report link down when LOS asserted" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

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

phylink: ensure we report link down when LOS asserted

to the 4.14-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:
phylink-ensure-we-report-link-down-when-los-asserted.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

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

From: Russell King <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2017 23:15:12 +0000
Subject: phylink: ensure we report link down when LOS asserted

From: Russell King <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit ac817f5ad066697e4d4d35ec68c974eba2c5f17a ]

Although we disable the netdev carrier, we fail to report in the kernel log that the link went down. Fix this.

---
 drivers/net/phy/phylink.c |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

@@ -1428,9 +1428,8 @@ static void phylink_sfp_link_down(void *
 	WARN_ON(!lockdep_rtnl_is_held());
 
 	set_bit(PHYLINK_DISABLE_LINK, &pl->phylink_disable_state);
+	queue_work(system_power_efficient_wq, &pl->resolve);
 	flush_work(&pl->resolve);
-
-	netif_carrier_off(pl->netdev);
 }
 
 static void phylink_sfp_link_up(void *upstream)

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

queue-4.14/sfp-fix-sfp-bus-oops-when-removing-socket-upstream.patch queue-4.14/phylink-ensure-we-report-link-down-when-los-asserted.patch