linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] net: stmmac: fix a possible endless loop

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Message-Id: <20200206.143753.1516354381077365451.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Thu, 06 Feb 2020 14:37:53 +0100 (CET)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     vkoul@...nel.org
Cc:     zhengdejin5@...il.com, peppe.cavallaro@...com,
        alexandre.torgue@...com, joabreu@...opsys.com,
        mcoquelin.stm32@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-stm32@...md-mailman.stormreply.com,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: stmmac: fix a possible endless loop

From: Vinod Koul <vkoul@...nel.org>
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2020 19:05:54 +0530

> On 06-02-20, 21:21, Dejin Zheng wrote:
>> It forgot to reduce the value of the variable retry in a while loop
>> in the ethqos_configure() function. It may cause an endless loop and
>> without timeout.
> 
> Thanks for the fix.
> 
> Acked-by: Vinod Koul <vkoul@...nel.org>
> 
> We should add:
> Fixes: a7c30e62d4b8 ("net: stmmac: Add driver for Qualcomm ethqos")
> 
> Also, I think this should be CCed stable

Networking patches do not CC: stable, I queued them up myself manually.

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