Patch "KVM: s390: Fix STHYI buffer alignment for diag224" has been added to the 4.8-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    KVM: s390: Fix STHYI buffer alignment for diag224

to the 4.8-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:
     kvm-s390-fix-sthyi-buffer-alignment-for-diag224.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.8 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 45c7ee43a5184ddbff652ee0d2e826f86f1b616b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 08:48:11 +0200
Subject: KVM: s390: Fix STHYI buffer alignment for diag224

From: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

commit 45c7ee43a5184ddbff652ee0d2e826f86f1b616b upstream.

Diag224 requires a page-aligned 4k buffer to store the name table
into. kmalloc does not guarantee page alignment, hence we replace it
with __get_free_page for the buffer allocation.

Reported-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/s390/kvm/sthyi.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/s390/kvm/sthyi.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kvm/sthyi.c
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ static void fill_diag(struct sthyi_sctns
 	if (r < 0)
 		goto out;
 
-	diag224_buf = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL | GFP_DMA);
+	diag224_buf = (void *)__get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL | GFP_DMA);
 	if (!diag224_buf || diag224(diag224_buf))
 		goto out;
 
@@ -378,7 +378,7 @@ static void fill_diag(struct sthyi_sctns
 	sctns->par.infpval1 |= PAR_WGHT_VLD;
 
 out:
-	kfree(diag224_buf);
+	free_page((unsigned long)diag224_buf);
 	vfree(diag204_buf);
 }
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from frankja@linux.vnet.ibm.com are

queue-4.8/kvm-s390-fix-sthyi-buffer-alignment-for-diag224.patch