This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
i40iw: Add missing check for interface already open
to the 4.7-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:
i40iw-add-missing-check-for-interface-already-open.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.7 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From faa739fb5df56aadab96bcd2f6eb3486cc3a3aec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mustafa Ismail <mustafa.ismail@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 18:17:12 -0500
Subject: i40iw: Add missing check for interface already open
From: Mustafa Ismail <mustafa.ismail@xxxxxxxxx>
commit faa739fb5df56aadab96bcd2f6eb3486cc3a3aec upstream.
In i40iw_open(), check if interface is already open
and return success if it is.
Fixes: 8e06af711bf2 ("i40iw: add main, hdr, status")
Reported-by: Stefan Assmann <sassmann@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mustafa Ismail <mustafa.ismail@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Shiraz Saleem <shiraz.saleem@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/infiniband/hw/i40iw/i40iw_main.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/i40iw/i40iw_main.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/i40iw/i40iw_main.c
@@ -1558,6 +1558,10 @@ static int i40iw_open(struct i40e_info *
enum i40iw_status_code status;
struct i40iw_handler *hdl;
+ hdl = i40iw_find_netdev(ldev->netdev);
+ if (hdl)
+ return 0;
+
hdl = kzalloc(sizeof(*hdl), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!hdl)
return -ENOMEM;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mustafa.ismail@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.7/i40iw-update-hw_iwarp_state.patch
queue-4.7/i40iw-add-missing-check-for-interface-already-open.patch
queue-4.7/i40iw-fix-double-free-of-allocated_buffer.patch
queue-4.7/i40iw-receive-notification-events-correctly.patch
queue-4.7/i40iw-change-mem_resources-pointer-to-a-u8.patch
queue-4.7/i40iw-protect-req_resource_num-update.patch
queue-4.7/i40iw-add-missing-null-check-for-mpa-private-data.patch
queue-4.7/i40iw-avoid-writing-to-freed-memory.patch
queue-4.7/i40iw-do-not-set-self-referencing-pointer-to-null-after-kfree.patch
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