Patch "IB/mlx5: Fix fatal error dispatching" has been added to the 4.8-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    IB/mlx5: Fix fatal error dispatching

to the 4.8-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-mlx5-fix-fatal-error-dispatching.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From dbaaff2a2caa03d472b5cc53a3fbfd415c97dc26 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eli Cohen <eli@mellanox.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 16:36:44 +0300
Subject: IB/mlx5: Fix fatal error dispatching

From: Eli Cohen <eli@mellanox.com>

commit dbaaff2a2caa03d472b5cc53a3fbfd415c97dc26 upstream.

When an internal error condition is detected, make sure to set the
device inactive after dispatching the event so ULPs can get a
notification of this event.

Fixes: e126ba97dba9 ('mlx5: Add driver for Mellanox Connect-IB adapters')
Signed-off-by: Eli Cohen <eli@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Maor Gottlieb <maorg@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Mohamad Haj Yahia <mohamad@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c |    7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c
@@ -2100,14 +2100,14 @@ static void mlx5_ib_event(struct mlx5_co
 {
 	struct mlx5_ib_dev *ibdev = (struct mlx5_ib_dev *)context;
 	struct ib_event ibev;
-
+	bool fatal = false;
 	u8 port = 0;
 
 	switch (event) {
 	case MLX5_DEV_EVENT_SYS_ERROR:
-		ibdev->ib_active = false;
 		ibev.event = IB_EVENT_DEVICE_FATAL;
 		mlx5_ib_handle_internal_error(ibdev);
+		fatal = true;
 		break;
 
 	case MLX5_DEV_EVENT_PORT_UP:
@@ -2154,6 +2154,9 @@ static void mlx5_ib_event(struct mlx5_co
 
 	if (ibdev->ib_active)
 		ib_dispatch_event(&ibev);
+
+	if (fatal)
+		ibdev->ib_active = false;
 }
 
 static void get_ext_port_caps(struct mlx5_ib_dev *dev)


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from eli@mellanox.com are

queue-4.8/ib-mlx5-fix-fatal-error-dispatching.patch
queue-4.8/ib-mlx5-fix-null-pointer-dereference-on-debug-print.patch