From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:45275 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754094AbcDIXkO (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Apr 2016 19:40:14 -0400 Subject: Patch "be2iscsi: set the boot_kset pointer to NULL in case of failure" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree To: mlombard@redhat.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, jitendra.bhivare@broadcom.com, jthumshirn@suse.de, martin.petersen@oracle.com Cc: , From: Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2016 16:40:13 -0700 Message-ID: <146024521395182@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled be2iscsi: set the boot_kset pointer to NULL in case of failure 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: be2iscsi-set-the-boot_kset-pointer-to-null-in-case-of-failure.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 know about it. >>From 84bd64993f916bcf86270c67686ecf4cea7b8933 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Maurizio Lombardi Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2016 10:41:49 +0100 Subject: be2iscsi: set the boot_kset pointer to NULL in case of failure From: Maurizio Lombardi commit 84bd64993f916bcf86270c67686ecf4cea7b8933 upstream. In beiscsi_setup_boot_info(), the boot_kset pointer should be set to NULL in case of failure otherwise an invalid pointer dereference may occur later. Signed-off-by: Maurizio Lombardi Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn Reviewed-by: Jitendra Bhivare Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/scsi/be2iscsi/be_main.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/drivers/scsi/be2iscsi/be_main.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/be2iscsi/be_main.c @@ -4470,6 +4470,7 @@ put_shost: scsi_host_put(phba->shost); free_kset: iscsi_boot_destroy_kset(phba->boot_kset); + phba->boot_kset = NULL; return -ENOMEM; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mlombard@redhat.com are queue-4.4/be2iscsi-set-the-boot_kset-pointer-to-null-in-case-of-failure.patch