This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
xhci: check for failed dma pool allocation
to the 3.4-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:
xhci-check-for-failed-dma-pool-allocation.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 025f880cb2e4d7218d0422d4b07bea1a68959c38 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:56:33 -0700
Subject: xhci: check for failed dma pool allocation
From: Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 025f880cb2e4d7218d0422d4b07bea1a68959c38 upstream.
Fail and free the container context in case dma_pool_alloc() can't allocate
the raw context data part of it
This patch should be backported to kernels as old as 2.6.31, that
contain the commit d115b04818e57bdbc7ccde4d0660b15e33013dc8 "USB: xhci:
Support for 64-byte contexts".
Signed-off-by: Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: John Youn <johnyoun@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/usb/host/xhci-mem.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/usb/host/xhci-mem.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/host/xhci-mem.c
@@ -369,6 +369,10 @@ static struct xhci_container_ctx *xhci_a
ctx->size += CTX_SIZE(xhci->hcc_params);
ctx->bytes = dma_pool_alloc(xhci->device_pool, flags, &ctx->dma);
+ if (!ctx->bytes) {
+ kfree(ctx);
+ return NULL;
+ }
memset(ctx->bytes, 0, ctx->size);
return ctx;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mathias.nyman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.4/xhci-check-for-failed-dma-pool-allocation.patch
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