This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled igb: check memory allocation failure to the 3.18-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: igb-check-memory-allocation-failure.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Thu Dec 21 10:55:04 CET 2017 From: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 08:39:51 +0200 Subject: igb: check memory allocation failure From: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 18eb86362a52f0af933cc0fd5e37027317eb2d1c ] Check memory allocation failures and return -ENOMEM in such cases, as already done for other memory allocations in this function. This avoids NULL pointers dereference. Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@xxxxxxxxx Acked-by: PJ Waskiewicz <peter.waskiewicz.jr@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c @@ -3001,6 +3001,8 @@ static int igb_sw_init(struct igb_adapte /* Setup and initialize a copy of the hw vlan table array */ adapter->shadow_vfta = kcalloc(E1000_VLAN_FILTER_TBL_SIZE, sizeof(u32), GFP_ATOMIC); + if (!adapter->shadow_vfta) + return -ENOMEM; /* This call may decrease the number of queues */ if (igb_init_interrupt_scheme(adapter, true)) { Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.18/igb-check-memory-allocation-failure.patch