Patch "xen-netfront: update num_queues to real created" has been added to the 4.1-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    xen-netfront: update num_queues to real created

to the 4.1-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:
     xen-netfront-update-num_queues-to-real-created.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.1 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 Jan 26 21:37:04 PST 2016
From: Joe Jin <joe.jin@oracle.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 13:37:17 +0800
Subject: xen-netfront: update num_queues to real created

From: Joe Jin <joe.jin@oracle.com>

[ Upstream commit ca88ea1247dfee094e2467a3578eaec9bdf0833a ]

Sometimes xennet_create_queues() may failed to created all requested
queues, we need to update num_queues to real created to avoid NULL
pointer dereference.

Signed-off-by: Joe Jin <joe.jin@oracle.com>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/net/xen-netfront.c |   14 +++++++-------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
+++ b/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
@@ -1710,19 +1710,19 @@ static void xennet_destroy_queues(struct
 }
 
 static int xennet_create_queues(struct netfront_info *info,
-				unsigned int num_queues)
+				unsigned int *num_queues)
 {
 	unsigned int i;
 	int ret;
 
-	info->queues = kcalloc(num_queues, sizeof(struct netfront_queue),
+	info->queues = kcalloc(*num_queues, sizeof(struct netfront_queue),
 			       GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!info->queues)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	rtnl_lock();
 
-	for (i = 0; i < num_queues; i++) {
+	for (i = 0; i < *num_queues; i++) {
 		struct netfront_queue *queue = &info->queues[i];
 
 		queue->id = i;
@@ -1732,7 +1732,7 @@ static int xennet_create_queues(struct n
 		if (ret < 0) {
 			dev_warn(&info->netdev->dev,
 				 "only created %d queues\n", i);
-			num_queues = i;
+			*num_queues = i;
 			break;
 		}
 
@@ -1742,11 +1742,11 @@ static int xennet_create_queues(struct n
 			napi_enable(&queue->napi);
 	}
 
-	netif_set_real_num_tx_queues(info->netdev, num_queues);
+	netif_set_real_num_tx_queues(info->netdev, *num_queues);
 
 	rtnl_unlock();
 
-	if (num_queues == 0) {
+	if (*num_queues == 0) {
 		dev_err(&info->netdev->dev, "no queues\n");
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
@@ -1792,7 +1792,7 @@ static int talk_to_netback(struct xenbus
 	if (info->queues)
 		xennet_destroy_queues(info);
 
-	err = xennet_create_queues(info, num_queues);
+	err = xennet_create_queues(info, &num_queues);
 	if (err < 0)
 		goto destroy_ring;
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from joe.jin@oracle.com are

queue-4.1/xen-netfront-update-num_queues-to-real-created.patch