This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled i40e: fix an uninitialized variable bug to the 4.4-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: i40e-fix-an-uninitialized-variable-bug.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 1c306f7f62a38ee5f05f0ee994dfe82d654cf47c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 5 May 2016 16:18:02 +0300 Subject: i40e: fix an uninitialized variable bug From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 1c306f7f62a38ee5f05f0ee994dfe82d654cf47c upstream. We removed this initialization but it is required. Let's put it back. Fixes: 895106a577c4 ('i40e: trivial fixes') Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_hmc.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_hmc.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_hmc.c @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ i40e_status i40e_add_sd_table_entry(stru struct i40e_hmc_sd_entry *sd_entry; bool dma_mem_alloc_done = false; struct i40e_dma_mem mem; - i40e_status ret_code; + i40e_status ret_code = I40E_SUCCESS; u64 alloc_len; if (NULL == hmc_info->sd_table.sd_entry) { Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/net-moxa-fix-an-error-code.patch queue-4.4/cx23885-uninitialized-variable-in-cx23885_av_work_handler.patch queue-4.4/power-ipaq-micro-battery-freeing-the-wrong-variable.patch queue-4.4/i40e-fix-an-uninitialized-variable-bug.patch queue-4.4/mips-rm7000-double-locking-bug-in-rm7k_tc_disable.patch queue-4.4/btrfs-clean-up-an-error-code-in-btrfs_init_space_info.patch queue-4.4/xprtrdma-checking-for-null-instead-of-is_err.patch queue-4.4/asoc-intel-pass-correct-parameter-in-sst_alloc_stream_mrfld.patch queue-4.4/ath9k_htc-check-for-underflow-in-ath9k_htc_rx_msg.patch queue-4.4/qlcnic-use-the-correct-ring-in-qlcnic_83xx_process_rcv_ring_diag.patch queue-4.4/mips-octeon-off-by-one-in-octeon_irq_gpio_map.patch queue-4.4/qede-uninitialized-variable-in-qede_start_xmit.patch queue-4.4/mfd-lp8788-irq-uninitialized-variable-in-irq-handler.patch queue-4.4/nfc-nci-memory-leak-in-nci_core_conn_create.patch queue-4.4/ethernet-micrel-fix-some-error-codes.patch queue-4.4/am437x-vpfe-fix-an-uninitialized-variable-bug.patch queue-4.4/qlcnic-potential-null-dereference-in-qlcnic_83xx_get_minidump_template.patch queue-4.4/bpf-mips-fix-off-by-one-in-ctx-offset-allocation.patch queue-4.4/mdio-sun4i-oops-in-error-handling-in-probe.patch queue-4.4/vfio-platform-reset-fix-a-warning-message-condition.patch queue-4.4/x86-apic-uv-silence-a-shift-wrapping-warning.patch