FAILED: patch "[PATCH] nvme: Fix nvme_get/set_features() with a NULL result pointer" failed to apply to 4.7-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 4.7-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

>From 9b47f77a680447e0132b2cf7fb82374e014bec1c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 03:52:12 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] nvme: Fix nvme_get/set_features() with a NULL result pointer

nvme_set_features() callers seem to expect that passing NULL as the
result pointer is acceptable.  Teach nvme_set_features() not to try to
write to the NULL address.

For symmetry, make the same change to nvme_get_features(), despite the
fact that all current callers pass a valid result pointer.

I assume that this bug hasn't been reported in practice because
the callers that pass NULL are all in the SCSI translation layer
and no one uses the relevant operations.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
index 7f75d661237f..2feacc70bf61 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
@@ -611,7 +611,7 @@ int nvme_get_features(struct nvme_ctrl *dev, unsigned fid, unsigned nsid,
 
 	ret = __nvme_submit_sync_cmd(dev->admin_q, &c, &cqe, NULL, 0, 0,
 			NVME_QID_ANY, 0, 0);
-	if (ret >= 0)
+	if (ret >= 0 && result)
 		*result = le32_to_cpu(cqe.result);
 	return ret;
 }
@@ -631,7 +631,7 @@ int nvme_set_features(struct nvme_ctrl *dev, unsigned fid, unsigned dword11,
 
 	ret = __nvme_submit_sync_cmd(dev->admin_q, &c, &cqe, NULL, 0, 0,
 			NVME_QID_ANY, 0, 0);
-	if (ret >= 0)
+	if (ret >= 0 && result)
 		*result = le32_to_cpu(cqe.result);
 	return ret;
 }