This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net/mlx4: Remove BUG_ON from ICM allocation routine 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: net-mlx4-remove-bug_on-from-icm-allocation-routine.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 foo@baz Fri Aug 4 13:32:40 PDT 2017 From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2016 18:37:11 +0200 Subject: net/mlx4: Remove BUG_ON from ICM allocation routine From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit c1d5f8ff80ea84768f5fae1ca9d1abfbb5e6bbaa ] This patch removes BUG_ON() macro from mlx4_alloc_icm_coherent() by checking DMA address alignment in advance and performing proper folding in case of error. Fixes: 5b0bf5e25efe ("mlx4_core: Support ICM tables in coherent memory") Reported-by: Ozgur Karatas <okaratas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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/mellanox/mlx4/icm.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/icm.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/icm.c @@ -118,8 +118,13 @@ static int mlx4_alloc_icm_coherent(struc if (!buf) return -ENOMEM; + if (offset_in_page(buf)) { + dma_free_coherent(dev, PAGE_SIZE << order, + buf, sg_dma_address(mem)); + return -ENOMEM; + } + sg_set_buf(mem, buf, PAGE_SIZE << order); - BUG_ON(mem->offset); sg_dma_len(mem) = PAGE_SIZE << order; return 0; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from leonro@xxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/net-mlx4-remove-bug_on-from-icm-allocation-routine.patch