This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
acpi, nfit: fix register dimm error handling
to the 4.9-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:
acpi-nfit-fix-register-dimm-error-handling.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 23fbd7c70aec7600e3227eb24259fc55bf6e4881 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2018 14:00:36 -0700
Subject: acpi, nfit: fix register dimm error handling
From: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@xxxxxxx>
commit 23fbd7c70aec7600e3227eb24259fc55bf6e4881 upstream.
A NULL pointer reference kernel bug was observed when
acpi_nfit_add_dimm() called in acpi_nfit_register_dimms() failed. This
error path does not set nfit_mem->nvdimm, but the 2nd
list_for_each_entry() loop in the function assumes it's always set. Add
a check to nfit_mem->nvdimm.
Fixes: ba9c8dd3c222 ("acpi, nfit: add dimm device notification support")
Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@xxxxxxx>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/acpi/nfit/core.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/acpi/nfit/core.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/nfit/core.c
@@ -1535,6 +1535,9 @@ static int acpi_nfit_register_dimms(stru
struct kernfs_node *nfit_kernfs;
nvdimm = nfit_mem->nvdimm;
+ if (!nvdimm)
+ continue;
+
nfit_kernfs = sysfs_get_dirent(nvdimm_kobj(nvdimm)->sd, "nfit");
if (nfit_kernfs)
nfit_mem->flags_attr = sysfs_get_dirent(nfit_kernfs,
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from toshi.kani@xxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/acpi-nfit-fix-register-dimm-error-handling.patch