Re: [PATCH 4.4 29/57] RDMA/uverbs: Check port number supplied by user verbs cmds

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 03:54:28PM +0000, Ismail, Mustafa wrote:
> > Subject: [PATCH 4.4 29/57] RDMA/uverbs: Check port number supplied by
> > user verbs cmds
> > 
> > 4.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> 
> Yes, this breaks modify qp.
> See https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9830663/

I don't understand this response at all, sorry.

What should I do about this?  Is this patch alone a problem?  Is there
some other patch I should apply that is in Linus's tree?  Where is the
problem, only in this old release?

totally confused,

greg k-h