This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
IB/core: Fix sysfs registration error flow
to the 4.9-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:
ib-core-fix-sysfs-registration-error-flow.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From b312be3d87e4c80872cbea869e569175c5eb0f9a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jack Morgenstein <jackm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 10:55:57 +0200
Subject: IB/core: Fix sysfs registration error flow
From: Jack Morgenstein <jackm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit b312be3d87e4c80872cbea869e569175c5eb0f9a upstream.
The kernel commit cited below restructured ib device management
so that the device kobject is initialized in ib_alloc_device.
As part of the restructuring, the kobject is now initialized in
procedure ib_alloc_device, and is later added to the device hierarchy
in the ib_register_device call stack, in procedure
ib_device_register_sysfs (which calls device_add).
However, in the ib_device_register_sysfs error flow, if an error
occurs following the call to device_add, the cleanup procedure
device_unregister is called. This call results in the device object
being deleted -- which results in various use-after-free crashes.
The correct cleanup call is device_del -- which undoes device_add
without deleting the device object.
The device object will then (correctly) be deleted in the
ib_register_device caller's error cleanup flow, when the caller invokes
ib_dealloc_device.
Fixes: 55aeed06544f6 ("IB/core: Make ib_alloc_device init the kobject")
Signed-off-by: Jack Morgenstein <jackm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leon@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/infiniband/core/sysfs.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/sysfs.c
@@ -1301,7 +1301,7 @@ err_put:
free_port_list_attributes(device);
err_unregister:
- device_unregister(class_dev);
+ device_del(class_dev);
err:
return ret;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jackm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/ib-core-fix-sysfs-registration-error-flow.patch
queue-4.9/ib-mlx4-fix-ib-device-initialization-error-flow.patch
queue-4.9/ib-mlx4-reduce-sriov-multicast-cleanup-warning-message-to-debug-level.patch