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

net: hns3: add nic_client check when initialize roce base information

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: net-hns3-add-nic_client-check-when-initialize-roce-base-information.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 Mon Dec 18 13:28:59 CET 2017

From: Lipeng lipeng321@huawei.com Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2017 21:02:10 +0800 Subject: net: hns3: add nic_client check when initialize roce base information

From: Lipeng lipeng321@huawei.com

[ Upstream commit 3a46f34d20d453f09defb76b11a567647939c0aa ]

Roce driver works base on HNS3 driver.If insmod Roce driver before NIC driver there is a error because do not check nic_client. This patch adds nic_client check when initialize roce base information.

Fixes: 46a3df9 (net: hns3: Add HNS3 Acceleration Engine & Compatibility Layer Support)

Signed-off-by: Lipeng lipeng321@huawei.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/hisilicon/hns3/hns3pf/hclge_main.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3pf/hclge_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3pf/hclge_main.c @@ -3981,7 +3981,7 @@ static int hclge_init_client_instance(st vport->roce.client = client; }

- if (hdev->roce_client) { + if (hdev->roce_client && hdev->nic_client) { ret = hclge_init_roce_base_info(vport); if (ret) goto err;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from lipeng321@huawei.com are

queue-4.14/net-hns3-fix-the-tx-rx-ring.queue_index-in-hns3_ring_get_cfg.patch queue-4.14/net-hns3-fix-the-bug-when-map-buffer-fail.patch queue-4.14/net-hns3-fix-a-bug-when-alloc-new-buffer.patch queue-4.14/net-hns3-fix-the-bug-of-hns3_set_txbd_baseinfo.patch queue-4.14/net-hns3-fix-a-bug-in-hclge_uninit_client_instance.patch queue-4.14/net-hns3-fix-a-misuse-to-devm_free_irq.patch queue-4.14/net-hns3-fix-for-getting-advertised_caps-in-hns3_get_link_ksettings.patch queue-4.14/net-hns3-add-nic_client-check-when-initialize-roce-base-information.patch