[PATCH net 0/3] net: stmmac: fix failed MTU reopening and hardware resume

From: James Hilliard

Date: Mon Sep 21 2026 - 12:59:19 EST


A failed stmmac MTU-change reopen leaves the netdev administratively up
after its replacement DMA resources have been freed. A later close can
repeat NAPI shutdown and IRQ or DMA-resource teardown. A failed hardware
resume similarly leaves an up interface with NAPI already disabled, so
closing it can hang in a second napi_disable().

Fix these error paths by tracking whether the data path is open and
closing the netdev through the network core after failed reinitialization.
For failed resume, release the suspended data path without disabling NAPI
again. Allow phylink to finish shutdown directly from its suspended state
without restarting a MAC whose hardware setup has failed.

Signed-off-by: James Hilliard <james.hilliard1@xxxxxxxxx>
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These fixes were previously posted as patches 1-3 of the H616 EMAC1 v4
series. Split them into a separate net series as requested by Maxime
Chevallier. The sun8i MAC-reset change, EMAC1 binding and variant remain
in the net-next series.

Changes since that posting:
- Adapt the failed-resume fix to the net tree's older stmmac_resume()
implementation, leaving timestamping behavior unchanged.
- Add a Fixes tag for the phylink suspend/stop handling.

Previous posting:
https://patch.msgid.link/20260920-submit-h616-emac1-v1-v4-0-8347dfe2eb7d@xxxxxxxxx

To: Russell King <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>
To: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: Joakim Zhang <qiangqing.zhang@xxxxxxx>
To: "Russell King (Oracle)" <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@xxxxxxx>
To: Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-stm32@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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James Hilliard (3):
net: phylink: allow stopping a suspended instance
net: stmmac: close the interface after a failed MTU reopen
net: stmmac: close the interface after failed hardware resume

drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac.h | 2 ++
drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c | 39 ++++++++++++++++++-----
drivers/net/phy/phylink.c | 16 ++++++++++
3 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
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base-commit: 1e24c4f2ee44be0eee94092b5d13cbdb4bdf0d60
change-id: 20260921-submit-stmmac-reset-fixes-v1-7c98b92d29a9

Best regards,
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James Hilliard <james.hilliard1@xxxxxxxxx>