Patch "IB/core: Fix endianness annotation in rdma_is_multicast_addr()" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

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

IB/core: Fix endianness annotation in rdma_is_multicast_addr()

to the 4.14-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:
ib-core-fix-endianness-annotation-in-rdma_is_multicast_addr.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 <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Bart Van Assche <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 10:48:43 -0700
Subject: IB/core: Fix endianness annotation in rdma_is_multicast_addr()

From: Bart Van Assche <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 1c3aea2bc8f0b2e5b57375ead40457ff75a3a2ec ]

Since ipv4_addr is a big endian 32-bit number, annotate it as such.

---
 include/rdma/ib_addr.h |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

@@ -306,12 +306,12 @@ static inline void rdma_get_ll_mac(struc
 
 static inline int rdma_is_multicast_addr(struct in6_addr *addr)
 {
-	u32 ipv4_addr;
+	__be32 ipv4_addr;
 
 	if (addr->s6_addr[0] == 0xff)
 		return 1;
 
-	memcpy(&ipv4_addr, addr->s6_addr + 12, 4);
+	ipv4_addr = addr->s6_addr32[3];
 	return (ipv6_addr_v4mapped(addr) && ipv4_is_multicast(ipv4_addr));
 }
 

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

queue-4.14/ib-core-fix-endianness-annotation-in-rdma_is_multicast_addr.patch queue-4.14/target-iscsi-detect-conn_cmd_list-corruption-early.patch queue-4.14/target-iscsi-fix-a-race-condition-in-iscsit_add_reject_from_cmd.patch queue-4.14/rdma-cma-avoid-triggering-undefined-behavior.patch queue-4.14/scsi-core-fix-a-scsi_show_rq-null-pointer-dereference.patch queue-4.14/blk-mq-sched-dispatch-from-scheduler-iff-progress-is-made-in-dispatch.patch