This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
i40iw: Fix double free of allocated_buffer
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-fix-double-free-of-allocated_buffer.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 d41d0910d97f05be987d2d60de7e8685c108963b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mustafa Ismail <mustafa.ismail@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 16:50:13 -0500
Subject: i40iw: Fix double free of allocated_buffer
From: Mustafa Ismail <mustafa.ismail@xxxxxxxxx>
commit d41d0910d97f05be987d2d60de7e8685c108963b upstream.
Memory allocated for iwqp; iwqp->allocated_buffer is freed twice in
the create_qp error path. Correct this by having it freed only once in
i40iw_free_qp_resources().
Fixes: d37498417947 ("i40iw: add files for iwarp interface")
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_verbs.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/i40iw/i40iw_verbs.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/i40iw/i40iw_verbs.c
@@ -794,7 +794,6 @@ static struct ib_qp *i40iw_create_qp(str
return &iwqp->ibqp;
error:
i40iw_free_qp_resources(iwdev, iwqp, qp_num);
- kfree(mem);
return ERR_PTR(err_code);
}
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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