This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled be2net: fix status check in be_cmd_pmac_add() 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: be2net-fix-status-check-in-be_cmd_pmac_add.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 foo@baz Mon Jul 3 13:41:44 CEST 2017 From: Ivan Vecera <cera@xxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 22:38:27 +0100 Subject: be2net: fix status check in be_cmd_pmac_add() From: Ivan Vecera <cera@xxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit fe68d8bfe59c561664aa87d827aa4b320eb08895 ] Return value from be_mcc_notify_wait() contains a base completion status together with an additional status. The base_status() macro need to be used to access base status. Fixes: e3a7ae2 be2net: Changing MAC Address of a VF was broken Cc: Sathya Perla <sathya.perla@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Sriharsha Basavapatna <sriharsha.basavapatna@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Somnath Kotur <somnath.kotur@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ivan Vecera <cera@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_cmds.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_cmds.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_cmds.c @@ -1052,7 +1052,7 @@ int be_cmd_pmac_add(struct be_adapter *a err: spin_unlock_bh(&adapter->mcc_lock); - if (status == MCC_STATUS_UNAUTHORIZED_REQUEST) + if (base_status(status) == MCC_STATUS_UNAUTHORIZED_REQUEST) status = -EPERM; return status; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from cera@xxxxxxx are queue-4.4/be2net-fix-status-check-in-be_cmd_pmac_add.patch