This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled scsi: aacraid: Fix udev inquiry race condition to the 4.14-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: scsi-aacraid-fix-udev-inquiry-race-condition.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From f4e8708d3104437fd7716e957f38c265b0c509ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Raghava Aditya Renukunta <RaghavaAditya.Renukunta@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2017 20:34:22 -0800 Subject: scsi: aacraid: Fix udev inquiry race condition From: Raghava Aditya Renukunta <RaghavaAditya.Renukunta@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit f4e8708d3104437fd7716e957f38c265b0c509ef upstream. When udev requests for a devices inquiry string, it might create multiple threads causing a race condition on the shared inquiry resource string. Created a buffer with the string for each thread. Fixes: 3bc8070fb75b3315 ([SCSI] aacraid: SMC vendor identification) Signed-off-by: Raghava Aditya Renukunta <RaghavaAditya.Renukunta@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/aacraid/aachba.c | 16 ++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/scsi/aacraid/aachba.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/aacraid/aachba.c @@ -913,8 +913,16 @@ static void setinqstr(struct aac_dev *de memset(str, ' ', sizeof(*str)); if (sup_adap_info->adapter_type_text[0]) { - char *cp = sup_adap_info->adapter_type_text; int c; + char *cp; + char *cname = kmemdup(sup_adap_info->adapter_type_text, + sizeof(sup_adap_info->adapter_type_text), + GFP_ATOMIC); + + if (!cname) + return; + + cp = cname; if ((cp[0] == 'A') && (cp[1] == 'O') && (cp[2] == 'C')) inqstrcpy("SMC", str->vid); else { @@ -923,7 +931,7 @@ static void setinqstr(struct aac_dev *de ++cp; c = *cp; *cp = '\0'; - inqstrcpy(sup_adap_info->adapter_type_text, str->vid); + inqstrcpy(cname, str->vid); *cp = c; while (*cp && *cp != ' ') ++cp; @@ -937,8 +945,8 @@ static void setinqstr(struct aac_dev *de cp[sizeof(str->pid)] = '\0'; } inqstrcpy (cp, str->pid); - if (c) - cp[sizeof(str->pid)] = c; + + kfree(cname); } else { struct aac_driver_ident *mp = aac_get_driver_ident(dev->cardtype); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from RaghavaAditya.Renukunta@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.14/scsi-aacraid-fix-udev-inquiry-race-condition.patch queue-4.14/scsi-aacraid-fix-hang-in-kdump.patch