This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled liquidio: fix bug in soft reset failure detection to the 4.11-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: liquidio-fix-bug-in-soft-reset-failure-detection.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.11 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 17 18:47:09 CEST 2017 From: Derek Chickles <derek.chickles@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2017 11:59:27 -0700 Subject: liquidio: fix bug in soft reset failure detection From: Derek Chickles <derek.chickles@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 05a6b4cae8c0cc1680c9dd33a97a49a13c0f01bc ] The code that detects a failed soft reset of Octeon is comparing the wrong value against the reset value of the Octeon SLI_SCRATCH_1 register, resulting in an inability to detect a soft reset failure. Fix it by using the correct value in the comparison, which is any non-zero value. Fixes: f21fb3ed364b ("Add support of Cavium Liquidio ethernet adapters") Fixes: c0eab5b3580a ("liquidio: CN23XX firmware download") Signed-off-by: Derek Chickles <derek.chickles@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Satanand Burla <satananda.burla@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Raghu Vatsavayi <raghu.vatsavayi@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Felix Manlunas <felix.manlunas@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/cn23xx_pf_device.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/cn66xx_device.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/cn23xx_pf_device.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/cn23xx_pf_device.c @@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ static int cn23xx_pf_soft_reset(struct o /* Wait for 100ms as Octeon resets. */ mdelay(100); - if (octeon_read_csr64(oct, CN23XX_SLI_SCRATCH1) == 0x1234ULL) { + if (octeon_read_csr64(oct, CN23XX_SLI_SCRATCH1)) { dev_err(&oct->pci_dev->dev, "OCTEON[%d]: Soft reset failed\n", oct->octeon_id); return 1; --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/cn66xx_device.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/cn66xx_device.c @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ int lio_cn6xxx_soft_reset(struct octeon_ /* Wait for 10ms as Octeon resets. */ mdelay(100); - if (octeon_read_csr64(oct, CN6XXX_SLI_SCRATCH1) == 0x1234ULL) { + if (octeon_read_csr64(oct, CN6XXX_SLI_SCRATCH1)) { dev_err(&oct->pci_dev->dev, "Soft reset failed\n"); return 1; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from derek.chickles@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.11/liquidio-fix-bug-in-soft-reset-failure-detection.patch