This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
scsi: csiostor: fix use after free in csio_hw_use_fwconfig()
to the 4.4-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-csiostor-fix-use-after-free-in-csio_hw_use_fwconfig.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 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 Tue Apr 10 10:31:53 CEST 2018
From: Varun Prakash <varun@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 20:30:43 +0530
Subject: scsi: csiostor: fix use after free in csio_hw_use_fwconfig()
From: Varun Prakash <varun@xxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit a351e40b6de550049423a26f7ded7b639e363d89 ]
mbp pointer is passed to csio_hw_validate_caps() so call mempool_free()
after calling csio_hw_validate_caps().
Signed-off-by: Varun Prakash <varun@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 541c571fa2fd ("csiostor:Use firmware version from cxgb4/t4fw_version.h")
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/scsi/csiostor/csio_hw.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/scsi/csiostor/csio_hw.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/csiostor/csio_hw.c
@@ -1769,7 +1769,6 @@ csio_hw_use_fwconfig(struct csio_hw *hw,
goto bye;
}
- mempool_free(mbp, hw->mb_mempool);
if (finicsum != cfcsum) {
csio_warn(hw,
"Config File checksum mismatch: csum=%#x, computed=%#x\n",
@@ -1780,6 +1779,10 @@ csio_hw_use_fwconfig(struct csio_hw *hw,
rv = csio_hw_validate_caps(hw, mbp);
if (rv != 0)
goto bye;
+
+ mempool_free(mbp, hw->mb_mempool);
+ mbp = NULL;
+
/*
* Note that we're operating with parameters
* not supplied by the driver, rather than from hard-wired
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from varun@xxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/scsi-csiostor-fix-use-after-free-in-csio_hw_use_fwconfig.patch