This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ice: Delete always true check of PF pointer to the 5.10-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: ice-delete-always-true-check-of-pf-pointer.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 2ff04286a9569675948f39cec2c6ad47c3584633 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2021 21:12:52 +0300 Subject: ice: Delete always true check of PF pointer From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 2ff04286a9569675948f39cec2c6ad47c3584633 upstream. PF pointer is always valid when PCI core calls its .shutdown() and .remove() callbacks. There is no need to check it again. Fixes: 837f08fdecbe ("ice: Add basic driver framework for Intel(R) E800 Series") Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c @@ -4361,9 +4361,6 @@ static void ice_remove(struct pci_dev *p struct ice_pf *pf = pci_get_drvdata(pdev); int i; - if (!pf) - return; - for (i = 0; i < ICE_MAX_RESET_WAIT; i++) { if (!ice_is_reset_in_progress(pf->state)) break; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from leonro@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.10/rdma-netlink-add-__maybe_unused-to-static-inline-in-c-file.patch queue-5.10/ice-delete-always-true-check-of-pf-pointer.patch queue-5.10/net-mlx5e-nullify-cq-dbg-pointer-in-mlx5_debug_cq_re.patch