Patch "sparc64: ldc abort during vds iso boot" 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

    sparc64: ldc abort during vds iso boot

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:
     sparc64-ldc-abort-during-vds-iso-boot.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 foo@baz Tue Apr 10 10:31:53 CEST 2018
From: Jag Raman <jag.raman@oracle.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2017 12:29:31 -0400
Subject: sparc64: ldc abort during vds iso boot

From: Jag Raman <jag.raman@oracle.com>


[ Upstream commit 6c95483b768c62f8ee933ae08a1bdbcb78b5410f ]

Orabug: 20902628

When an ldc control-only packet is received during data exchange in
read_nonraw(), a new rx head is calculated but the rx queue head is not
actually advanced (rx_set_head() is not called) and a branch is taken to
'no_data' at which point two things can happen depending on the value
of the newly calculated rx head and the current rx tail:

- If the rx queue is determined to be not empty, then the wrong packet
  is picked up.

- If the rx queue is determined to be empty, then a read error (EAGAIN)
  is eventually returned since it is falsely assumed that more data was
  expected.

The fix is to update the rx head and return in case of a control only
packet during data exchange.

Signed-off-by: Jagannathan Raman <jag.raman@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Aaron Young <aaron.young@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Bijan Mottahedeh <bijan.mottahedeh@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Liam Merwick <liam.merwick@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 arch/sparc/kernel/ldc.c |    7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/sparc/kernel/ldc.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/ldc.c
@@ -1733,9 +1733,14 @@ static int read_nonraw(struct ldc_channe
 
 		lp->rcv_nxt = p->seqid;
 
+		/*
+		 * If this is a control-only packet, there is nothing
+		 * else to do but advance the rx queue since the packet
+		 * was already processed above.
+		 */
 		if (!(p->type & LDC_DATA)) {
 			new = rx_advance(lp, new);
-			goto no_data;
+			break;
 		}
 		if (p->stype & (LDC_ACK | LDC_NACK)) {
 			err = data_ack_nack(lp, p);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jag.raman@oracle.com are

queue-4.4/sparc64-ldc-abort-during-vds-iso-boot.patch