This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
bsg-lib: don't free job in bsg_prepare_job
to the 4.13-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:
bsg-lib-don-t-free-job-in-bsg_prepare_job.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.13 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From f507b54dccfd8000c517d740bc45f20c74532d18 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2017 13:54:35 +0200
Subject: bsg-lib: don't free job in bsg_prepare_job
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
commit f507b54dccfd8000c517d740bc45f20c74532d18 upstream.
The job structure is allocated as part of the request, so we should not
free it in the error path of bsg_prepare_job.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
block/bsg-lib.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
--- a/block/bsg-lib.c
+++ b/block/bsg-lib.c
@@ -154,7 +154,6 @@ static int bsg_prepare_job(struct device
failjob_rls_rqst_payload:
kfree(job->request_payload.sg_list);
failjob_rls_job:
- kfree(job);
return -ENOMEM;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hch@xxxxxx are
queue-4.13/nvme-pci-use-appropriate-initial-chunk-size-for-hmb-allocation.patch
queue-4.13/nvme-pci-propagate-some-errors-from-host-memory-buffer-setup.patch
queue-4.13/genirq-fix-cpumask-check-in-__irq_startup_managed.patch
queue-4.13/scsi-aacraid-fix-2t-drives-on-smartioc-2000.patch
queue-4.13/bsg-lib-don-t-free-job-in-bsg_prepare_job.patch
queue-4.13/nvme-pci-fix-host-memory-buffer-allocation-fallback.patch
queue-4.13/scsi-scsi_transport_fc-fix-null-pointer-dereference-in-fc_bsg_job_timeout.patch