Patch "net/mlx4_en: Fix bad WQE issue" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    net/mlx4_en: Fix bad WQE issue

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:
     net-mlx4_en-fix-bad-wqe-issue.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@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 6496bbf0ec481966ef9ffe5b6660d8d1b55c60cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eugenia Emantayev <eugenia@mellanox.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2016 18:37:10 +0200
Subject: net/mlx4_en: Fix bad WQE issue

From: Eugenia Emantayev <eugenia@mellanox.com>

commit 6496bbf0ec481966ef9ffe5b6660d8d1b55c60cc upstream.

Single send WQE in RX buffer should be stamped with software
ownership in order to prevent the flow of QP in error in FW
once UPDATE_QP is called.

Fixes: 9f519f68cfff ('mlx4_en: Not using Shared Receive Queues')
Signed-off-by: Eugenia Emantayev <eugenia@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c |    8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c
@@ -439,8 +439,14 @@ int mlx4_en_activate_rx_rings(struct mlx
 		ring->cqn = priv->rx_cq[ring_ind]->mcq.cqn;
 
 		ring->stride = stride;
-		if (ring->stride <= TXBB_SIZE)
+		if (ring->stride <= TXBB_SIZE) {
+			/* Stamp first unused send wqe */
+			__be32 *ptr = (__be32 *)ring->buf;
+			__be32 stamp = cpu_to_be32(1 << STAMP_SHIFT);
+			*ptr = stamp;
+			/* Move pointer to start of rx section */
 			ring->buf += TXBB_SIZE;
+		}
 
 		ring->log_stride = ffs(ring->stride) - 1;
 		ring->buf_size = ring->size * ring->stride;


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

queue-4.4/net-mlx4_en-fix-bad-wqe-issue.patch