This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ath10k: ignore configuring the incorrect board_id 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: ath10k-ignore-configuring-the-incorrect-board_id.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 Tue Nov 28 10:49:28 CET 2017 From: Ryan Hsu <ryanhsu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2016 15:02:37 -0800 Subject: ath10k: ignore configuring the incorrect board_id From: Ryan Hsu <ryanhsu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit d2e202c06ca42d353d95df12437740921a6d05b5 ] With command to get board_id from otp, in the case of following boot get otp board id result 0x00000000 board_id 0 chip_id 0 boot using board name 'bus=pci,bmi-chip-id=0,bmi-board-id=0" ... failed to fetch board data for bus=pci,bmi-chip-id=0,bmi-board-id=0 from ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/board-2.bin The invalid board_id=0 will be used as index to search in the board-2.bin. Ignore the case with board_id=0, as it means the otp is not carrying the board id information. Signed-off-by: Ryan Hsu <ryanhsu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c @@ -691,8 +691,11 @@ static int ath10k_core_get_board_id_from "boot get otp board id result 0x%08x board_id %d chip_id %d\n", result, board_id, chip_id); - if ((result & ATH10K_BMI_BOARD_ID_STATUS_MASK) != 0) + if ((result & ATH10K_BMI_BOARD_ID_STATUS_MASK) != 0 || + (board_id == 0)) { + ath10k_warn(ar, "board id is not exist in otp, ignore it\n"); return -EOPNOTSUPP; + } ar->id.bmi_ids_valid = true; ar->id.bmi_board_id = board_id; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ryanhsu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/ath10k-fix-incorrect-txpower-set-by-p2p_device-interface.patch queue-4.9/ath10k-ignore-configuring-the-incorrect-board_id.patch