Patch "qede: Prevent index problems in loopback test" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    qede: Prevent index problems in loopback test

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:
     qede-prevent-index-problems-in-loopback-test.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@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Thu Oct 19 15:04:02 CEST 2017
From: Sudarsana Reddy Kalluru <Sudarsana.Kalluru@cavium.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 22:43:37 +0200
Subject: qede: Prevent index problems in loopback test

From: Sudarsana Reddy Kalluru <Sudarsana.Kalluru@cavium.com>


[ Upstream commit afe981d664aeeebc8d1bcbd7d2070b5432edaecb ]

Driver currently utilizes the same loop variable in two
nested loops.

Signed-off-by: Sudarsana Reddy Kalluru <Sudarsana.Kalluru@cavium.com>
Signed-off-by: Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@cavium.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede_ethtool.c |    6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede_ethtool.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede_ethtool.c
@@ -1221,7 +1221,7 @@ static int qede_selftest_receive_traffic
 	struct qede_rx_queue *rxq = NULL;
 	struct sw_rx_data *sw_rx_data;
 	union eth_rx_cqe *cqe;
-	int i, rc = 0;
+	int i, iter, rc = 0;
 	u8 *data_ptr;
 
 	for_each_queue(i) {
@@ -1240,7 +1240,7 @@ static int qede_selftest_receive_traffic
 	 * enabled. This is because the queue 0 is configured as the default
 	 * queue and that the loopback traffic is not IP.
 	 */
-	for (i = 0; i < QEDE_SELFTEST_POLL_COUNT; i++) {
+	for (iter = 0; iter < QEDE_SELFTEST_POLL_COUNT; iter++) {
 		if (!qede_has_rx_work(rxq)) {
 			usleep_range(100, 200);
 			continue;
@@ -1287,7 +1287,7 @@ static int qede_selftest_receive_traffic
 		qed_chain_recycle_consumed(&rxq->rx_comp_ring);
 	}
 
-	if (i == QEDE_SELFTEST_POLL_COUNT) {
+	if (iter == QEDE_SELFTEST_POLL_COUNT) {
 		DP_NOTICE(edev, "Failed to receive the traffic\n");
 		return -1;
 	}


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from Sudarsana.Kalluru@cavium.com are

queue-4.9/qede-prevent-index-problems-in-loopback-test.patch