Patch "staging: android: ion: Switch from WARN to pr_warn" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    staging: android: ion: Switch from WARN to pr_warn

to the 4.14-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:
     staging-android-ion-switch-from-warn-to-pr_warn.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 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 e4e179a844f52e907e550f887d0a2171f1508af1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2018 11:14:09 -0800
Subject: staging: android: ion: Switch from WARN to pr_warn

From: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>

commit e4e179a844f52e907e550f887d0a2171f1508af1 upstream.

Syzbot reported a warning with Ion:

WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 3502 at drivers/staging/android/ion/ion-ioctl.c:73 ion_ioctl+0x2db/0x380 drivers/staging/android/ion/ion-ioctl.c:73
Kernel panic - not syncing: panic_on_warn set ...

This is a warning that validation of the ioctl fields failed. This was
deliberately added as a warning to make it very obvious to developers that
something needed to be fixed. In reality, this is overkill and disturbs
fuzzing. Switch to pr_warn for a message instead.

Reported-by: syzbot+fa2d5f63ee5904a0115a@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: syzbot <syzkaller@googlegroups.com>
Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/staging/android/ion/ion-ioctl.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion-ioctl.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion-ioctl.c
@@ -71,8 +71,10 @@ long ion_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsign
 		return -EFAULT;
 
 	ret = validate_ioctl_arg(cmd, &data);
-	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(ret))
+	if (ret) {
+		pr_warn_once("%s: ioctl validate failed\n", __func__);
 		return ret;
+	}
 
 	if (!(dir & _IOC_WRITE))
 		memset(&data, 0, sizeof(data));


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from labbott@redhat.com are

queue-4.14/staging-android-ion-switch-from-warn-to-pr_warn.patch
queue-4.14/staging-android-ion-add-__gfp_nowarn-for-system-contig-heap.patch