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

IB/ipoib: Change list_del to list_del_init in the tx object

to the 3.18-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-ipoib-change-list_del-to-list_del_init-in-the-tx-object.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 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 Thu Nov 9 10:19:57 CET 2017

From: Feras Daoud ferasda@mellanox.com Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2016 14:47:28 +0200 Subject: IB/ipoib: Change list_del to list_del_init in the tx object

From: Feras Daoud ferasda@mellanox.com

[ Upstream commit 27d41d29c7f093f6f77843624fbb080c1b4a8b9c ]

Since ipoib_cm_tx_start function and ipoib_cm_tx_reap function belong to different work queues, they can run in parallel. In this case if ipoib_cm_tx_reap calls list_del and release the lock, ipoib_cm_tx_start may acquire it and call list_del_init on the already deleted object. Changing list_del to list_del_init in ipoib_cm_tx_reap fixes the problem.

Fixes: 839fcaba355a ("IPoIB: Connected mode experimental support") Signed-off-by: Feras Daoud ferasda@mellanox.com Signed-off-by: Erez Shitrit erezsh@mellanox.com Reviewed-by: Alex Vesker valex@mellanox.com Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky leon@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Yuval Shaia yuval.shaia@oracle.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/ipoib/ipoib_cm.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_cm.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_cm.c @@ -1362,7 +1362,7 @@ static void ipoib_cm_tx_reap(struct work

while (!list_empty(&priv->cm.reap_list)) { p = list_entry(priv->cm.reap_list.next, typeof(*p), list); - list_del(&p->list); + list_del_init(&p->list); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&priv->lock, flags); netif_tx_unlock_bh(dev); ipoib_cm_tx_destroy(p);

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ferasda@mellanox.com are

queue-3.18/ib-ipoib-change-list_del-to-list_del_init-in-the-tx-object.patch