This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
[PATCH 029/135] lightnvm: add check after mempool allocation
to the 4.4-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:
0029-lightnvm-add-check-after-mempool-allocation.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
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From: Javier Gonzalez <javier@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 07:49:17 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 029/135] lightnvm: add check after mempool allocation
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[ Upstream commit 3bfbc6adbc5031e8a5907baa5beb27b41637742a ]
The mempool allocation might fail. Make sure to return error when it
does, instead of causing a kernel panic.
Signed-off-by: Javier Gonzalez <javier@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/lightnvm/rrpc.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/lightnvm/rrpc.c
+++ b/drivers/lightnvm/rrpc.c
@@ -287,6 +287,8 @@ static int rrpc_move_valid_pages(struct
}
page = mempool_alloc(rrpc->page_pool, GFP_NOIO);
+ if (!page)
+ return -ENOMEM;
while ((slot = find_first_zero_bit(rblk->invalid_pages,
nr_pgs_per_blk)) < nr_pgs_per_blk) {
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from javier@xxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/0029-lightnvm-add-check-after-mempool-allocation.patch
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