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

nl80211: Fix enum type of variable in nl80211_put_sta_rate()

to the 4.9-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: nl80211-fix-enum-type-of-variable-in-nl80211_put_sta_rate.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 bbf67e450a5dc2a595e1e7a67b4869f1a7f5a338 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Matthias Kaehlcke mka@chromium.org Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2017 15:59:52 -0700 Subject: nl80211: Fix enum type of variable in nl80211_put_sta_rate()

From: Matthias Kaehlcke mka@chromium.org

commit bbf67e450a5dc2a595e1e7a67b4869f1a7f5a338 upstream.

rate_flg is of type 'enum nl80211_attrs', however it is assigned with 'enum nl80211_rate_info' values. Change the type of rate_flg accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke mka@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com Cc: Nathan Chancellor natechancellor@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- net/wireless/nl80211.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c +++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c @@ -4081,7 +4081,7 @@ static bool nl80211_put_sta_rate(struct struct nlattr *rate; u32 bitrate; u16 bitrate_compat; - enum nl80211_attrs rate_flg; + enum nl80211_rate_info rate_flg;

rate = nla_nest_start(msg, attr); if (!rate)

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mka@chromium.org are

queue-4.9/dm-ioctl-remove-double-parentheses.patch queue-4.9/arm64-avoid-overflow-in-va_start-and-page_offset.patch queue-4.9/btrfs-remove-extra-parentheses-from-condition-in-copy_items.patch queue-4.9/genirq-use-cpumask_available-for-check-of-cpumask-variable.patch queue-4.9/nl80211-fix-enum-type-of-variable-in-nl80211_put_sta_rate.patch queue-4.9/selinux-remove-redundant-check-for-unknown-labeling-behavior.patch queue-4.9/fs-compat-remove-warning-from-compatible_ioctl.patch queue-4.9/jiffies.h-declare-jiffies-and-jiffies_64-with-____cacheline_aligned_in_smp.patch queue-4.9/selinux-remove-unnecessary-check-of-array-base-in-selinux_set_mapping.patch queue-4.9/pci-make-pci_rom_address_mask-a-32-bit-constant.patch queue-4.9/frv-declare-jiffies-to-be-located-in-the-.data-section.patch queue-4.9/mac80211-ibss-fix-channel-type-enum-in-ieee80211_sta_join_ibss.patch queue-4.9/cfg80211-fix-array-bounds-warning-in-fragment-copy.patch queue-4.9/netfilter-ctnetlink-make-some-parameters-integer-to-avoid-enum-mismatch.patch queue-4.9/mac80211-fix-clang-warning-about-constant-operand-in-logical-operation.patch queue-4.9/cpumask-add-helper-cpumask_available.patch