Patch "libcxgb: fix error check for ip6_route_output()" 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

libcxgb: fix error check for ip6_route_output()

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:
libcxgb-fix-error-check-for-ip6_route_output.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: Varun Prakash <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2017 21:25:48 +0530
Subject: libcxgb: fix error check for ip6_route_output()

From: Varun Prakash <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit a9a8cdb368d99bb655b5cdabea560446db0527cc ]

ip6_route_output() never returns NULL so
check dst->error instead of !dst.

---
 drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/libcxgb/libcxgb_cm.c |   12 +++++-------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

@@ -133,17 +133,15 @@ cxgb_find_route6(struct cxgb4_lld_info *
 		if (ipv6_addr_type(&fl6.daddr) & IPV6_ADDR_LINKLOCAL)
 			fl6.flowi6_oif = sin6_scope_id;
 		dst = ip6_route_output(&init_net, NULL, &fl6);
-		if (!dst)
-			goto out;
-		if (!cxgb_our_interface(lldi, get_real_dev,
-					ip6_dst_idev(dst)->dev) &&
-		    !(ip6_dst_idev(dst)->dev->flags & IFF_LOOPBACK)) {
+		if (dst->error ||
+		    (!cxgb_our_interface(lldi, get_real_dev,
+					 ip6_dst_idev(dst)->dev) &&
+		     !(ip6_dst_idev(dst)->dev->flags & IFF_LOOPBACK))) {
 			dst_release(dst);
-			dst = NULL;
+			return NULL;
 		}
 	}
 
-out:
 	return dst;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(cxgb_find_route6);

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

queue-4.9/libcxgb-fix-error-check-for-ip6_route_output.patch