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

IB/opa_vnic: Properly clear Mac Table Digest

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: ib-opa_vnic-properly-clear-mac-table-digest.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: Scott Franco safranco@intel.com Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 06:44:13 -0700 Subject: IB/opa_vnic: Properly clear Mac Table Digest

From: Scott Franco safranco@intel.com

[ Upstream commit 4bbdfe25600c1909c26747d0b5c39fd0e409bb87 ]

Clear the MAC table digest when the MAC table is freed.

Reviewed-by: Niranjana Vishwanathapura niranjana.vishwanathapura@intel.com Signed-off-by: Scott Franco safranco@intel.com Signed-off-by: Dennis Dalessandro dennis.dalessandro@intel.com Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford dledford@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/infiniband/ulp/opa_vnic/opa_vnic_encap.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/opa_vnic/opa_vnic_encap.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/opa_vnic/opa_vnic_encap.c @@ -139,6 +139,7 @@ void opa_vnic_release_mac_tbl(struct opa rcu_assign_pointer(adapter->mactbl, NULL); synchronize_rcu(); opa_vnic_free_mac_tbl(mactbl); + adapter->info.vport.mac_tbl_digest = 0; mutex_unlock(&adapter->mactbl_lock); }

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from safranco@intel.com are

queue-4.14/ib-opa_vnic-properly-clear-mac-table-digest.patch