Patch "scsi: megaraid_sas: Check valid aen class range to avoid kernel panic" 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

    scsi: megaraid_sas: Check valid aen class range to avoid kernel panic

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:
     scsi-megaraid_sas-check-valid-aen-class-range-to-avoid-kernel-panic.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 91b3d9f0069c8307d0b3a4c6843b65a439183318 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Shivasharan S <shivasharan.srikanteshwara@broadcom.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 04:47:01 -0700
Subject: scsi: megaraid_sas: Check valid aen class range to avoid kernel panic

From: Shivasharan S <shivasharan.srikanteshwara@broadcom.com>

commit 91b3d9f0069c8307d0b3a4c6843b65a439183318 upstream.

Signed-off-by: Kashyap Desai <kashyap.desai@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Shivasharan S <shivasharan.srikanteshwara@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Henzl <thenzl@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_base.c |    8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_base.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_base.c
@@ -5094,6 +5094,14 @@ megasas_register_aen(struct megasas_inst
 		prev_aen.word =
 			le32_to_cpu(instance->aen_cmd->frame->dcmd.mbox.w[1]);
 
+		if ((curr_aen.members.class < MFI_EVT_CLASS_DEBUG) ||
+		    (curr_aen.members.class > MFI_EVT_CLASS_DEAD)) {
+			dev_info(&instance->pdev->dev,
+				 "%s %d out of range class %d send by application\n",
+				 __func__, __LINE__, curr_aen.members.class);
+			return 0;
+		}
+
 		/*
 		 * A class whose enum value is smaller is inclusive of all
 		 * higher values. If a PROGRESS (= -1) was previously


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from shivasharan.srikanteshwara@broadcom.com are

queue-4.4/scsi-megaraid_sas-check-valid-aen-class-range-to-avoid-kernel-panic.patch
queue-4.4/scsi-megaraid_sas-return-pended-ioctls-with-cmd_status-mfi_stat_wrong_state-in-case-adapter-is-dead.patch