Patch "nvme: clear caller pointer on identify failure" has been added to the 6.1-stable tree

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

    nvme: clear caller pointer on identify failure

to the 6.1-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:
     nvme-clear-caller-pointer-on-identify-failure.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.



commit b79f43644c7ace46af0f1a711d1e52065d3b7682
Author: Keith Busch <kbusch@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Wed Mar 6 06:20:30 2024 -0800

    nvme: clear caller pointer on identify failure
    
    [ Upstream commit 7e80eb792bd7377a20f204943ac31c77d859be89 ]
    
    The memory allocated for the identification is freed on failure. Set
    it to NULL so the caller doesn't have a pointer to that freed address.
    
    Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
    Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
index 1aff793a1d77e..0729ab5430725 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
@@ -1366,8 +1366,10 @@ static int nvme_identify_ctrl(struct nvme_ctrl *dev, struct nvme_id_ctrl **id)
 
 	error = nvme_submit_sync_cmd(dev->admin_q, &c, *id,
 			sizeof(struct nvme_id_ctrl));
-	if (error)
+	if (error) {
 		kfree(*id);
+		*id = NULL;
+	}
 	return error;
 }
 
@@ -1496,6 +1498,7 @@ static int nvme_identify_ns(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl, unsigned nsid,
 	if (error) {
 		dev_warn(ctrl->device, "Identify namespace failed (%d)\n", error);
 		kfree(*id);
+		*id = NULL;
 	}
 	return error;
 }




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