Patch "i40iw: Add missing check for interface already open" has been added to the 4.7-stable tree

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

i40iw: Add missing check for interface already open

to the 4.7-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
i40iw-add-missing-check-for-interface-already-open.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.7 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Mustafa Ismail <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 18:17:12 -0500
Subject: i40iw: Add missing check for interface already open

From: Mustafa Ismail <[email protected]>

commit faa739fb5df56aadab96bcd2f6eb3486cc3a3aec upstream.

In i40iw_open(), check if interface is already open and return success if it is.

---
 drivers/infiniband/hw/i40iw/i40iw_main.c |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

@@ -1558,6 +1558,10 @@ static int i40iw_open(struct i40e_info *
 	enum i40iw_status_code status;
 	struct i40iw_handler *hdl;
 
+	hdl = i40iw_find_netdev(ldev->netdev);
+	if (hdl)
+		return 0;
+
 	hdl = kzalloc(sizeof(*hdl), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!hdl)
 		return -ENOMEM;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.7/i40iw-update-hw_iwarp_state.patch queue-4.7/i40iw-add-missing-check-for-interface-already-open.patch queue-4.7/i40iw-fix-double-free-of-allocated_buffer.patch queue-4.7/i40iw-receive-notification-events-correctly.patch queue-4.7/i40iw-change-mem_resources-pointer-to-a-u8.patch queue-4.7/i40iw-protect-req_resource_num-update.patch queue-4.7/i40iw-add-missing-null-check-for-mpa-private-data.patch queue-4.7/i40iw-avoid-writing-to-freed-memory.patch queue-4.7/i40iw-do-not-set-self-referencing-pointer-to-null-after-kfree.patch