Patch "i40iw: Change mem_resources pointer to a u8" 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: Change mem_resources pointer to a u8

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-change-mem_resources-pointer-to-a-u8.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: Shiraz Saleem <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 18:09:14 -0500
Subject: i40iw: Change mem_resources pointer to a u8

From: Shiraz Saleem <[email protected]>

commit 6c7d46fdb8165ece4b0a17fb8f0b9320dbfeffc2 upstream.

iwdev->mem_resources is incorrectly defined as an unsigned long instead of u8. As a result, the offset into the dynamic allocated structures in i40iw_initialize_hw_resources() is incorrectly calculated and would lead to writing of memory regions outside of the allocated buffer.

---
 drivers/infiniband/hw/i40iw/i40iw.h |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ struct i40iw_device {
 	struct i40e_client *client;
 	struct i40iw_hw hw;
 	struct i40iw_cm_core cm_core;
-	unsigned long *mem_resources;
+	u8 *mem_resources;
 	unsigned long *allocated_qps;
 	unsigned long *allocated_cqs;
 	unsigned long *allocated_mrs;

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-send-last-streaming-mode-message-for-loopback-connections.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