netdev - Re: [stable request <= 3.11] net/mlx4

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Message-ID: <544791C6.1080604@mellanox.com>
Date:	Wed, 22 Oct 2014 14:15:18 +0300
From:	Amir Vadai <amirv@...lanox.com>
To:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@...il.com>,
	Cong Wang <cwang@...pensource.com>,
	Vinson Lee <vlee@...pensource.com>,
	Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>,
	"Jack Morgenstein" <jackm@....mellanox.co.il>,
	Eugenia Emantayev <eugenia@...lanox.com>,
	Matan Barak <matanb@...lanox.com>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <saeedm@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: [stable request <= 3.11] net/mlx4_en: Fix BlueFlame race

On 10/22/2014 7:17 AM, Or Gerlitz wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 2:15 AM, Cong Wang <cwang@...pensource.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Vinson Lee <vlee@...pensource.com> wrote:
>>> Hi.
>>>
>>> Please consider backporting upstream commit
>>> 2d4b646613d6b12175b017aca18113945af1faf3 "net/mlx4_en: Fix BlueFlame
>>> race" to stable kernels <= 3.11.
>>>
>>
>> David, could you take care of it if you have time? It fixes a real
>> bug in production. :)
> 
> Let out folks here look on that 1st.
> 
> Or.
> 
Verified patch above [1] on 3.10.y (v3.10.58) as is.

Dave, please pull it to stable 3.10

I don't know about an LTS 3.11 kernel - but if there is such an option,
I verified that the patch also applies cleanly on 3.11.y.

Thanks,
Amir

[1] - 2d4b646 ("net/mlx4_en: Fix BlueFlame race")
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