Patch "qed: Fix possible system hang in the dcbnl-getdcbx() path." has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

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

qed: Fix possible system hang in the dcbnl-getdcbx() path.

to the 4.9-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:
qed-fix-possible-system-hang-in-the-dcbnl-getdcbx-path.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

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

From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 03:19:54 -0700
Subject: qed: Fix possible system hang in the dcbnl-getdcbx() path.

From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 62289ba27558553871fd047baadaaeda886c6a63 ]

qed_dcbnl_get_dcbx() API uses kmalloc in GFT_KERNEL mode. The API gets invoked in the interrupt context by qed_dcbnl_getdcbx callback. Need to invoke this kmalloc in atomic mode.

---
 drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_dcbx.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -1222,7 +1222,7 @@ static struct qed_dcbx_get *qed_dcbnl_ge
 {
 	struct qed_dcbx_get *dcbx_info;
 
-	dcbx_info = kzalloc(sizeof(*dcbx_info), GFP_KERNEL);
+	dcbx_info = kmalloc(sizeof(*dcbx_info), GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (!dcbx_info)
 		return NULL;
 

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

queue-4.9/qed-fix-possible-system-hang-in-the-dcbnl-getdcbx-path.patch