The patch titled
Dereference in drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_ct.c
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
dereference-in-drivers-scsi-lpfc-lpfc_ctc.patch
See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find
out what to do about this
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Subject: Dereference in drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_ct.c
From: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@xxxxxx>
If we fail to allocate mp->virt during the first while loop iteration,
mlist is still uninitialized, therefore we should check if before
dereferencing.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@xxxxxx>
Acked-by: James Smart <James.Smart@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_ct.c | 3 ++-
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_ct.c~dereference-in-drivers-scsi-lpfc-lpfc_ctc drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_ct.c
--- a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_ct.c~dereference-in-drivers-scsi-lpfc-lpfc_ctc
+++ a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_ct.c
@@ -188,7 +188,8 @@ lpfc_alloc_ct_rsp(struct lpfc_hba * phba
if (!mp->virt) {
kfree(mp);
- lpfc_free_ct_rsp(phba, mlist);
+ if (mlist)
+ lpfc_free_ct_rsp(phba, mlist);
return NULL;
}
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from snakebyte@xxxxxx are
origin.patch
git-gfs2.patch
remove-unnecessary-check-in-drivers-video-intelfb-intelfbhwc.patch
remove-unnecessary-check-in-drivers-net-depcac.patch
off-by-one-in-arch-ppc-platforms-mpc8.patch
git-scsi-misc.patch
remove-unnecessary-check-in-drivers-scsi-sgc.patch
dereference-in-drivers-scsi-lpfc-lpfc_ctc.patch
possible-dereference-in-drivers-net-wireless-zd1201c.patch
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