Patch "i40iw: Protect req_resource_num update" 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: Protect req_resource_num update

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-protect-req_resource_num-update.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 18:15:58 -0500
Subject: i40iw: Protect req_resource_num update

From: Mustafa Ismail <[email protected]>

commit 44856be3e95c87f03e850ef4fdf8c0503c2dde18 upstream.

In i40iw_alloc_resource(), ensure that the update to req_resource_num is protected by the lock.

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

@@ -435,8 +435,8 @@ static inline int i40iw_alloc_resource(s
 	*next = resource_num + 1;
 	if (*next == max_resources)
 		*next = 0;
-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&iwdev->resource_lock, flags);
 	*req_resource_num = resource_num;
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&iwdev->resource_lock, flags);
 
 	return 0;
 }

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