Patch "modules: fix modparam async_probe request" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    modules: fix modparam async_probe request

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:
     modules-fix-modparam-async_probe-request.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@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 4355efbd80482a961cae849281a8ef866e53d55c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2016 16:55:26 +1030
Subject: modules: fix modparam async_probe request

From: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>

commit 4355efbd80482a961cae849281a8ef866e53d55c upstream.

Commit f2411da746985 ("driver-core: add driver module
asynchronous probe support") added async probe support,
in two forms:

  * in-kernel driver specification annotation
  * generic async_probe module parameter (modprobe foo async_probe)

To support the generic kernel parameter parse_args() was
extended via commit ecc8617053e0 ("module: add extra
argument for parse_params() callback") however commit
failed to f2411da746985 failed to add the required argument.

This causes a crash then whenever async_probe generic
module parameter is used. This was overlooked when the
form in which in-kernel async probe support was reworked
a bit... Fix this as originally intended.

Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> [minimized]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 kernel/module.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -3515,7 +3515,7 @@ static int load_module(struct load_info
 
 	/* Module is ready to execute: parsing args may do that. */
 	after_dashes = parse_args(mod->name, mod->args, mod->kp, mod->num_kp,
-				  -32768, 32767, NULL,
+				  -32768, 32767, mod,
 				  unknown_module_param_cb);
 	if (IS_ERR(after_dashes)) {
 		err = PTR_ERR(after_dashes);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mcgrof@suse.com are

queue-4.4/x86-uaccess-64-handle-the-caching-of-4-byte-nocache-copies-properly-in-__copy_user_nocache.patch
queue-4.4/x86-mm-fix-vmalloc_fault-to-handle-large-pages-properly.patch
queue-4.4/modules-fix-modparam-async_probe-request.patch
queue-4.4/x86-uaccess-64-make-the-__copy_user_nocache-assembly-code-more-readable.patch