This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled IPoIB: Avoid reading an uninitialized member variable to the 4.9-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: ipoib-avoid-reading-an-uninitialized-member-variable.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 11b642b84e8c43e8597de031678d15c08dd057bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 10:21:41 -0800 Subject: IPoIB: Avoid reading an uninitialized member variable From: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxxxxxx> commit 11b642b84e8c43e8597de031678d15c08dd057bc upstream. This patch avoids that Coverity reports the following: Using uninitialized value port_attr.state when calling printk Fixes: commit 94232d9ce817 ("IPoIB: Start multicast join process only on active ports") Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Erez Shitrit <erezsh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_multicast.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_multicast.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_multicast.c @@ -575,8 +575,11 @@ void ipoib_mcast_join_task(struct work_s if (!test_bit(IPOIB_FLAG_OPER_UP, &priv->flags)) return; - if (ib_query_port(priv->ca, priv->port, &port_attr) || - port_attr.state != IB_PORT_ACTIVE) { + if (ib_query_port(priv->ca, priv->port, &port_attr)) { + ipoib_dbg(priv, "ib_query_port() failed\n"); + return; + } + if (port_attr.state != IB_PORT_ACTIVE) { ipoib_dbg(priv, "port state is not ACTIVE (state = %d) suspending join task\n", port_attr.state); return; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bart.vanassche@xxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/ib-mad-fix-an-array-index-check.patch queue-4.9/ipoib-avoid-reading-an-uninitialized-member-variable.patch queue-4.9/ib-rxe-fix-a-memory-leak-in-rxe_qp_cleanup.patch queue-4.9/ib-multicast-check-ib_find_pkey-return-value.patch queue-4.9/ib-cma-fix-a-race-condition-in-iboe_addr_get_sgid.patch queue-4.9/iscsi-target-return-error-if-unable-to-add-network-portal.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