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

ixgbe: fix use of uninitialized padding

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: ixgbe-fix-use-of-uninitialized-padding.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 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 Wed Dec 20 18:17:52 CET 2017

From: Emil Tantilov emil.s.tantilov@intel.com Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 14:21:31 -0700 Subject: ixgbe: fix use of uninitialized padding

From: Emil Tantilov emil.s.tantilov@intel.com

[ Upstream commit dcfd6b839c998bc9838e2a47f44f37afbdf3099c ]

This patch is resolving Coverity hits where padding in a structure could be used uninitialized.

- Initialize fwd_cmd.pad/2 before ixgbe_calculate_checksum()

- Initialize buffer.pad2/3 before ixgbe_hic_unlocked()

Signed-off-by: Emil Tantilov emil.s.tantilov@intel.com Tested-by: Andrew Bowers andrewx.bowers@intel.com Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_common.c | 4 ++-- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_x550.c | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_common.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_common.c @@ -3781,10 +3781,10 @@ s32 ixgbe_set_fw_drv_ver_generic(struct fw_cmd.ver_build = build; fw_cmd.ver_sub = sub; fw_cmd.hdr.checksum = 0; - fw_cmd.hdr.checksum = ixgbe_calculate_checksum((u8 *)&fw_cmd, - (FW_CEM_HDR_LEN + fw_cmd.hdr.buf_len)); fw_cmd.pad = 0; fw_cmd.pad2 = 0; + fw_cmd.hdr.checksum = ixgbe_calculate_checksum((u8 *)&fw_cmd, + (FW_CEM_HDR_LEN + fw_cmd.hdr.buf_len));

for (i = 0; i <= FW_CEM_MAX_RETRIES; i++) { ret_val = ixgbe_host_interface_command(hw, &fw_cmd, --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_x550.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_x550.c @@ -900,6 +900,8 @@ static s32 ixgbe_read_ee_hostif_buffer_X /* convert offset from words to bytes */ buffer.address = cpu_to_be32((offset + current_word) * 2); buffer.length = cpu_to_be16(words_to_read * 2); + buffer.pad2 = 0; + buffer.pad3 = 0;

status = ixgbe_hic_unlocked(hw, (u32 *)&buffer, sizeof(buffer), IXGBE_HI_COMMAND_TIMEOUT);

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from emil.s.tantilov@intel.com are

queue-4.14/ixgbe-fix-use-of-uninitialized-padding.patch