This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled qede: Prevent index problems in loopback test 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: qede-prevent-index-problems-in-loopback-test.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 Thu Oct 19 15:04:02 CEST 2017 From: Sudarsana Reddy Kalluru <Sudarsana.Kalluru@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 22:43:37 +0200 Subject: qede: Prevent index problems in loopback test From: Sudarsana Reddy Kalluru <Sudarsana.Kalluru@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit afe981d664aeeebc8d1bcbd7d2070b5432edaecb ] Driver currently utilizes the same loop variable in two nested loops. Signed-off-by: Sudarsana Reddy Kalluru <Sudarsana.Kalluru@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@xxxxxxxxxx> 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/qlogic/qede/qede_ethtool.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede_ethtool.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede_ethtool.c @@ -1221,7 +1221,7 @@ static int qede_selftest_receive_traffic struct qede_rx_queue *rxq = NULL; struct sw_rx_data *sw_rx_data; union eth_rx_cqe *cqe; - int i, rc = 0; + int i, iter, rc = 0; u8 *data_ptr; for_each_queue(i) { @@ -1240,7 +1240,7 @@ static int qede_selftest_receive_traffic * enabled. This is because the queue 0 is configured as the default * queue and that the loopback traffic is not IP. */ - for (i = 0; i < QEDE_SELFTEST_POLL_COUNT; i++) { + for (iter = 0; iter < QEDE_SELFTEST_POLL_COUNT; iter++) { if (!qede_has_rx_work(rxq)) { usleep_range(100, 200); continue; @@ -1287,7 +1287,7 @@ static int qede_selftest_receive_traffic qed_chain_recycle_consumed(&rxq->rx_comp_ring); } - if (i == QEDE_SELFTEST_POLL_COUNT) { + if (iter == QEDE_SELFTEST_POLL_COUNT) { DP_NOTICE(edev, "Failed to receive the traffic\n"); return -1; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from Sudarsana.Kalluru@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/qede-prevent-index-problems-in-loopback-test.patch