This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled fm10k: correctly check if interface is removed to the 4.4-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: fm10k-correctly-check-if-interface-is-removed.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 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 Mar 19 09:58:12 CET 2018 From: Phil Turnbull <phil.turnbull@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 13:33:58 -0500 Subject: fm10k: correctly check if interface is removed From: Phil Turnbull <phil.turnbull@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 540fca35e38d15777b310f450f63f056e63039f5 ] FM10K_REMOVED expects a hardware address, not a 'struct fm10k_hw'. Fixes: 5cb8db4a4cbc ("fm10k: Add support for VF") Signed-off-by: Phil Turnbull <phil.turnbull@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Krishneil Singh <krishneil.k.singh@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_ethtool.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_ethtool.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_ethtool.c @@ -983,7 +983,7 @@ static void fm10k_self_test(struct net_d memset(data, 0, sizeof(*data) * FM10K_TEST_LEN); - if (FM10K_REMOVED(hw)) { + if (FM10K_REMOVED(hw->hw_addr)) { netif_err(interface, drv, dev, "Interface removed - test blocked\n"); eth_test->flags |= ETH_TEST_FL_FAILED; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from phil.turnbull@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/fm10k-correctly-check-if-interface-is-removed.patch