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Date:   Thu, 1 Sep 2022 17:04:16 +0200
From:   Francesco Dolcini <francesco.dolcini@...adex.com>
To:     Csókás Bence <csokas.bence@...lan.hu>
CC:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Francesco Dolcini <francesco.dolcini@...adex.com>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, kernel@...gutronix.de,
        Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@...gutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net: fec: Use a spinlock to guard `fep->ptp_clk_on`

On Thu, Sep 01, 2022 at 04:04:03PM +0200, Csókás Bence wrote:
> Mutexes cannot be taken in a non-preemptible context,
> causing a panic in `fec_ptp_save_state()`. Replacing
> `ptp_clk_mutex` by `tmreg_lock` fixes this.
> 
> Fixes: 6a4d7234ae9a ("net: fec: ptp: avoid register access when ipg clock is disabled")
This should be removed, there was no issue with just this commit. Am I
wrong?

One of the reasons of the Fixes tag is to backport to stable releases,
and you do not want this commit in 5.15.x.

Francesco

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