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

mlxsw: spectrum: Fix error return code in mlxsw_sp_port_create()

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: mlxsw-spectrum-fix-error-return-code-in-mlxsw_sp_port_create.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: Wei Yongjun weiyongjun1@huawei.com Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2017 11:11:28 +0000 Subject: mlxsw: spectrum: Fix error return code in mlxsw_sp_port_create()

From: Wei Yongjun weiyongjun1@huawei.com

[ Upstream commit d86fd113ebbb37726ef7c7cc6fd6d5ce377455d6 ]

Fix to return a negative error code from the VID create error handling case instead of 0, as done elsewhere in this function.

Fixes: c57529e1d5d8 ("mlxsw: spectrum: Replace vPorts with Port-VLAN") Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun weiyongjun1@huawei.com Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel idosch@mellanox.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/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum.c @@ -2974,6 +2974,7 @@ static int mlxsw_sp_port_create(struct m if (IS_ERR(mlxsw_sp_port_vlan)) { dev_err(mlxsw_sp->bus_info->dev, "Port %d: Failed to create VID 1\n", mlxsw_sp_port->local_port); + err = PTR_ERR(mlxsw_sp_port_vlan); goto err_port_vlan_get; }

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from weiyongjun1@huawei.com are

queue-4.14/nullb-fix-error-return-code-in-null_init.patch queue-4.14/mlxsw-spectrum-fix-error-return-code-in-mlxsw_sp_port_create.patch