This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
i40iw: Do not set self-referencing pointer to NULL after kfree
to the 4.7-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:
i40iw-do-not-set-self-referencing-pointer-to-null-after-kfree.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.7 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 7eaf8313b1cfe93417a22bdc3f7380cac2a3dc6d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mustafa Ismail <mustafa.ismail@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 19:01:47 -0500
Subject: i40iw: Do not set self-referencing pointer to NULL after kfree
From: Mustafa Ismail <mustafa.ismail@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 7eaf8313b1cfe93417a22bdc3f7380cac2a3dc6d upstream.
In i40iw_free_virt_mem(), do not set mem->va to NULL
after freeing it as mem->va is a self-referencing pointer
to mem.
Fixes: 4e9042e647ff ("i40iw: add hw and utils files")
Reported-by: Stefan Assmann <sassmann@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mustafa Ismail <mustafa.ismail@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Shiraz Saleem <shiraz.saleem@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/infiniband/hw/i40iw/i40iw_utils.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/i40iw/i40iw_utils.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/i40iw/i40iw_utils.c
@@ -673,8 +673,11 @@ enum i40iw_status_code i40iw_free_virt_m
{
if (!mem)
return I40IW_ERR_PARAM;
+ /*
+ * mem->va points to the parent of mem, so both mem and mem->va
+ * can not be touched once mem->va is freed
+ */
kfree(mem->va);
- mem->va = NULL;
return 0;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mustafa.ismail@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.7/i40iw-update-hw_iwarp_state.patch
queue-4.7/i40iw-add-missing-check-for-interface-already-open.patch
queue-4.7/i40iw-fix-double-free-of-allocated_buffer.patch
queue-4.7/i40iw-receive-notification-events-correctly.patch
queue-4.7/i40iw-change-mem_resources-pointer-to-a-u8.patch
queue-4.7/i40iw-protect-req_resource_num-update.patch
queue-4.7/i40iw-add-missing-null-check-for-mpa-private-data.patch
queue-4.7/i40iw-avoid-writing-to-freed-memory.patch
queue-4.7/i40iw-do-not-set-self-referencing-pointer-to-null-after-kfree.patch
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