This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled IB/hfi1: Initialize bth1 in 16B rc ack builder to the 4.14-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: ib-hfi1-initialize-bth1-in-16b-rc-ack-builder.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 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 Feb 23 11:45:09 CET 2018 From: Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 04:34:23 -0800 Subject: IB/hfi1: Initialize bth1 in 16B rc ack builder From: Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 8935780b9f7bbad0f2eb5dd43f61ba7b509a1575 ] It is possible the bth1 variable could be used uninitialized so going ahead and giving it a default value. Otherwise we leak stack memory to the network. Fixes: 5b6cabb0db77 ("IB/hfi1: Add 16B RC/UC support") Reviewed-by: Don Hiatt <don.hiatt@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/rc.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/rc.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/rc.c @@ -815,7 +815,7 @@ static inline void hfi1_make_rc_ack_16B( struct hfi1_pportdata *ppd = ppd_from_ibp(ibp); struct hfi1_16b_header *hdr = &opa_hdr->opah; struct ib_other_headers *ohdr; - u32 bth0, bth1; + u32 bth0, bth1 = 0; u16 len, pkey; u8 becn = !!is_fecn; u8 l4 = OPA_16B_L4_IB_LOCAL; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dennis.dalessandro@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.14/ib-hfi1-initialize-bth1-in-16b-rc-ack-builder.patch