This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
IB/mlx4: Fix mlx4_ib_alloc_mr error flow
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:
ib-mlx4-fix-mlx4_ib_alloc_mr-error-flow.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 foo@baz Wed Feb 28 16:13:29 CET 2018
From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2017 15:33:14 +0200
Subject: IB/mlx4: Fix mlx4_ib_alloc_mr error flow
From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 5a371cf87e145b86efd32007e46146e78c1eff6d ]
ibmr.device is being set only after ib_alloc_mr() is successfully complete.
Therefore, in case imlx4_mr_enable() returns with error, the error flow
unwinder calls to mlx4_free_priv_pages(), which uses ibmr.device.
Such usage causes to NULL dereference oops and to fix it, the IB device
should be set in the mr struct earlier stage (e.g. prior to calling
mlx4_free_priv_pages()).
Fixes: 1b2cd0fc673c ("IB/mlx4: Support the new memory registration API")
Signed-off-by: Nitzan Carmi <nitzanc@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/mr.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/mr.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/mr.c
@@ -406,7 +406,6 @@ struct ib_mr *mlx4_ib_alloc_mr(struct ib
goto err_free_mr;
mr->max_pages = max_num_sg;
-
err = mlx4_mr_enable(dev->dev, &mr->mmr);
if (err)
goto err_free_pl;
@@ -417,6 +416,7 @@ struct ib_mr *mlx4_ib_alloc_mr(struct ib
return &mr->ibmr;
err_free_pl:
+ mr->ibmr.device = pd->device;
mlx4_free_priv_pages(mr);
err_free_mr:
(void) mlx4_mr_free(dev->dev, &mr->mmr);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from leonro@xxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/ib-mlx4-fix-mlx4_ib_alloc_mr-error-flow.patch