netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] ibmveth: Always stop tx queues during close

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Message-ID: <20221018114729.79dbfbe2@kernel.org>
Date:   Tue, 18 Oct 2022 11:47:29 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Nick Child <nnac123@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, nick.child@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ibmveth: Always stop tx queues during close

On Mon, 17 Oct 2022 10:17:43 -0500 Nick Child wrote:
> The issue with this approach was that the hypervisor freed all of
> the devices control structures after the hcall H_FREE_LOGICAL_LAN
> was performed but the transmit queues were never stopped. So the higher
> layers in the network stack would continue transmission but any
> H_SEND_LOGICAL_LAN hcall would fail with H_PARAMETER until the
> hypervisor's structures for the device were allocated with the
> H_REGISTER_LOGICAL_LAN hcall in ibmveth_open.

Sounds like we should treat this one as a fix as well?
How far back is it safe to backport?