This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
SCSI: megaraid_sas: fix memory leak if SGL has zero length entries
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:
scsi-megaraid_sas-fix-memory-leak-if-sgl-has-zero-length-entries.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 7a6a731bd00ca90d0e250867c3b9c05b5ff0fa49 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 09:54:48 +0100
Subject: SCSI: megaraid_sas: fix memory leak if SGL has zero length entries
From: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@xxxxxxx>
commit 7a6a731bd00ca90d0e250867c3b9c05b5ff0fa49 upstream.
commit 98cb7e44 ([SCSI] megaraid_sas: Sanity check user
supplied length before passing it to dma_alloc_coherent())
introduced a memory leak. Memory allocated for entries
following zero length SGL entries will not be freed.
Reference: http://bugs.debian.org/688198
Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Adam Radford <aradford@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_base.c | 10 ++++++----
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_base.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_base.c
@@ -4817,10 +4817,12 @@ megasas_mgmt_fw_ioctl(struct megasas_ins
sense, sense_handle);
}
- for (i = 0; i < ioc->sge_count && kbuff_arr[i]; i++) {
- dma_free_coherent(&instance->pdev->dev,
- kern_sge32[i].length,
- kbuff_arr[i], kern_sge32[i].phys_addr);
+ for (i = 0; i < ioc->sge_count; i++) {
+ if (kbuff_arr[i])
+ dma_free_coherent(&instance->pdev->dev,
+ kern_sge32[i].length,
+ kbuff_arr[i],
+ kern_sge32[i].phys_addr);
}
megasas_return_cmd(instance, cmd);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bjorn@xxxxxxx are
queue-3.4/scsi-megaraid_sas-fix-memory-leak-if-sgl-has-zero-length-entries.patch
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