This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled genirq: Use cpumask_available() for check of cpumask variable 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: genirq-use-cpumask_available-for-check-of-cpumask-variable.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 d170fe7dd992b313d4851ae5ab77ee7a51ed8c72 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 11:20:30 -0700 Subject: genirq: Use cpumask_available() for check of cpumask variable From: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@xxxxxxxxxxxx> commit d170fe7dd992b313d4851ae5ab77ee7a51ed8c72 upstream. This fixes the following clang warning when CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=n: kernel/irq/manage.c:839:28: error: address of array 'desc->irq_common_data.affinity' will always evaluate to 'true' [-Werror,-Wpointer-bool-conversion] Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michael Davidson <md@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170412182030.83657-2-mka@xxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/irq/manage.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/kernel/irq/manage.c +++ b/kernel/irq/manage.c @@ -850,7 +850,7 @@ irq_thread_check_affinity(struct irq_des * This code is triggered unconditionally. Check the affinity * mask pointer. For CPU_MASK_OFFSTACK=n this is optimized out. */ - if (desc->irq_common_data.affinity) + if (cpumask_available(desc->irq_common_data.affinity)) cpumask_copy(mask, desc->irq_common_data.affinity); else valid = false; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mka@xxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/dm-ioctl-remove-double-parentheses.patch queue-4.9/genirq-use-cpumask_available-for-check-of-cpumask-variable.patch queue-4.9/fs-compat-remove-warning-from-compatible_ioctl.patch queue-4.9/selinux-remove-unnecessary-check-of-array-base-in-selinux_set_mapping.patch queue-4.9/pci-make-pci_rom_address_mask-a-32-bit-constant.patch queue-4.9/cpumask-add-helper-cpumask_available.patch