From: Niklas Cassel <redacted>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 14:56:31 +0100

I would like to request that

commit eab127717a6af54401ba534790c793ec143cd1fc
Author: Florian Fainelli [off-list ref]
Date:   Fri Jan 20 15:31:52 2017 -0800

    net: phy: Avoid deadlock during phy_error()

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would be backported to stable branch v4.9.

I've seen this deadlock happen on v4.9.x

Ok, queued up.