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Patch "be2net: fix status check in be_cmd_pmac_add()" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

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

be2net: fix status check in be_cmd_pmac_add()

to the 4.4-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:
be2net-fix-status-check-in-be_cmd_pmac_add.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

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

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From foo@baz Mon Jul 3 13:41:44 CEST 2017

From: Ivan Vecera <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 22:38:27 +0100
Subject: be2net: fix status check in be_cmd_pmac_add()

From: Ivan Vecera <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit fe68d8bfe59c561664aa87d827aa4b320eb08895 ]

Return value from be_mcc_notify_wait() contains a base completion status together with an additional status. The base_status() macro need to be used to access base status.

Fixes e3a7ae2 be2net: Changing MAC Address of a VF was broken
Cc Sathya Perla <[email protected]>
Cc Ajit Khaparde <[email protected]>
Cc Sriharsha Basavapatna <[email protected]>
Cc Somnath Kotur <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_cmds.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_cmds.c +1 -1
@@ -1052,7 +1052,7 @@ int be_cmd_pmac_add(struct be_adapter *a
 err:
 	spin_unlock_bh(&adapter->mcc_lock);
 
-	 if (status == MCC_STATUS_UNAUTHORIZED_REQUEST)
+	 if (base_status(status) == MCC_STATUS_UNAUTHORIZED_REQUEST)
 		status = -EPERM;
 
 	return status;

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

queue-4.4/be2net-fix-status-check-in-be_cmd_pmac_add.patch