Patch "s390/vmlogrdr: fix IUCV buffer allocation" 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

    s390/vmlogrdr: fix IUCV buffer allocation

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:
     s390-vmlogrdr-fix-iucv-buffer-allocation.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 5457e03de918f7a3e294eb9d26a608ab8a579976 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 12:13:58 +0100
Subject: s390/vmlogrdr: fix IUCV buffer allocation

From: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>

commit 5457e03de918f7a3e294eb9d26a608ab8a579976 upstream.

The buffer for iucv_message_receive() needs to be below 2 GB. In
__iucv_message_receive(), the buffer address is casted to an u32, which
would result in either memory corruption or an addressing exception when
using addresses >= 2 GB.

Fix this by using GFP_DMA for the buffer allocation.

Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/s390/char/vmlogrdr.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/s390/char/vmlogrdr.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/char/vmlogrdr.c
@@ -870,7 +870,7 @@ static int __init vmlogrdr_init(void)
 		goto cleanup;
 
 	for (i=0; i < MAXMINOR; ++i ) {
-		sys_ser[i].buffer = (char *) get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL);
+		sys_ser[i].buffer = (char *) get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL | GFP_DMA);
 		if (!sys_ser[i].buffer) {
 			rc = -ENOMEM;
 			break;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com are

queue-4.8/s390-vmlogrdr-fix-iucv-buffer-allocation.patch