This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled r8152: fix the list rx_done may be used without initialization 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: r8152-fix-the-list-rx_done-may-be-used-without-initialization.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: hayeswang <hayeswang@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 14:15:20 +0800 Subject: r8152: fix the list rx_done may be used without initialization From: hayeswang <hayeswang@xxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 98d068ab52b4b11d403995ed14154660797e7136 ] The list rx_done would be initialized when the linking on occurs. Therefore, if a napi is scheduled without any linking on before, the following kernel panic would happen. BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000008 IP: [<ffffffffc085efde>] r8152_poll+0xe1e/0x1210 [r8152] PGD 0 Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP Signed-off-by: Hayes Wang <hayeswang@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/usb/r8152.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/drivers/net/usb/r8152.c +++ b/drivers/net/usb/r8152.c @@ -1252,6 +1252,7 @@ static int alloc_all_mem(struct r8152 *t spin_lock_init(&tp->tx_lock); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&tp->rx_done); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&tp->tx_free); + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&tp->rx_done); skb_queue_head_init(&tp->tx_queue); for (i = 0; i < RTL8152_MAX_RX; i++) { Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hayeswang@xxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.18/r8152-fix-the-list-rx_done-may-be-used-without-initialization.patch