Patch "net: qca_spi: clear IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

Patch "net: qca_spi: clear IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[gregkh]

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

    net: qca_spi: clear IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING

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-qca_spi-clear-iff_tx_skb_sharing.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 foo@baz Sat Apr 16 10:02:53 PDT 2016
From: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@i2se.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 19:23:24 +0000
Subject: net: qca_spi: clear IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING

From: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@i2se.com>

[ Upstream commit a4690afeb0d2d7ba4d60dfa98a89f3bb1ce60ecd ]

ether_setup sets IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING but this is not supported by
qca_spi as it modifies the skb on xmit.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@i2se.com>
Fixes: 291ab06ecf67 (net: qualcomm: new Ethernet over SPI driver for QCA7000)
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/qca_spi.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/qca_spi.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/qca_spi.c
@@ -811,6 +811,7 @@ qcaspi_netdev_setup(struct net_device *d
 	dev->netdev_ops = &qcaspi_netdev_ops;
 	qcaspi_set_ethtool_ops(dev);
 	dev->watchdog_timeo = QCASPI_TX_TIMEOUT;
+	dev->priv_flags &= ~IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING;
 	dev->tx_queue_len = 100;
 
 	qca = netdev_priv(dev);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from stefan.wahren@i2se.com are

queue-4.4/net-qca_spi-don-t-clear-iff_broadcast.patch
queue-4.4/net-qca_spi-clear-iff_tx_skb_sharing.patch