This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net/mlx4_en: really allow to change RSS key to the 4.2-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: net-mlx4_en-really-allow-to-change-rss-key.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.2 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Wed Sep 30 05:25:07 CEST 2015 From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 18:29:47 -0700 Subject: net/mlx4_en: really allow to change RSS key From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upsteam commit 4671fc6d47e0a0108fe24a4d830347d6a6ef4aa7 ] When changing rss key, we do not want to overwrite user provided key by the one provided by netdev_rss_key_fill(), which is the host random key generated at boot time. Fixes: 947cbb0ac242 ("net/mlx4_en: Support for configurable RSS hash function") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Eyal Perry <eyalpe@xxxxxxxxxxxx> CC: Amir Vadai <amirv@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c @@ -1250,8 +1250,6 @@ int mlx4_en_config_rss_steer(struct mlx4 rss_context->hash_fn = MLX4_RSS_HASH_TOP; memcpy(rss_context->rss_key, priv->rss_key, MLX4_EN_RSS_KEY_SIZE); - netdev_rss_key_fill(rss_context->rss_key, - MLX4_EN_RSS_KEY_SIZE); } else { en_err(priv, "Unknown RSS hash function requested\n"); err = -EINVAL; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.2/net-mlx4_en-really-allow-to-change-rss-key.patch queue-4.2/tcp-add-proper-ts-val-into-rst-packets.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html