This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
IB/srpt: Do not accept invalid initiator port names
to the 4.4-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:
ib-srpt-do-not-accept-invalid-initiator-port-names.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From c70ca38960399a63d5c048b7b700612ea321d17e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 10:27:22 -0700
Subject: IB/srpt: Do not accept invalid initiator port names
From: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxx>
commit c70ca38960399a63d5c048b7b700612ea321d17e upstream.
Make srpt_parse_i_port_id() return a negative value if hex2bin()
fails.
Fixes: commit a42d985bd5b2 ("ib_srpt: Initial SRP Target merge for v3.3-rc1")
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/infiniband/ulp/srpt/ib_srpt.c | 9 ++++-----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/srpt/ib_srpt.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/srpt/ib_srpt.c
@@ -3425,7 +3425,7 @@ static int srpt_parse_i_port_id(u8 i_por
{
const char *p;
unsigned len, count, leading_zero_bytes;
- int ret, rc;
+ int ret;
p = name;
if (strncasecmp(p, "0x", 2) == 0)
@@ -3437,10 +3437,9 @@ static int srpt_parse_i_port_id(u8 i_por
count = min(len / 2, 16U);
leading_zero_bytes = 16 - count;
memset(i_port_id, 0, leading_zero_bytes);
- rc = hex2bin(i_port_id + leading_zero_bytes, p, count);
- if (rc < 0)
- pr_debug("hex2bin failed for srpt_parse_i_port_id: %d\n", rc);
- ret = 0;
+ ret = hex2bin(i_port_id + leading_zero_bytes, p, count);
+ if (ret < 0)
+ pr_debug("hex2bin failed for srpt_parse_i_port_id: %d\n", ret);
out:
return ret;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bart.vanassche@xxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/ib-srp-avoid-that-a-cable-pull-can-trigger-a-kernel-crash.patch
queue-4.4/ib-srpt-do-not-accept-invalid-initiator-port-names.patch