Patch "scsi: csiostor: fix use after free in csio_hw_use_fwconfig()" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

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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



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