From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:50175 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752765AbcJEITq (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2016 04:19:46 -0400 Subject: Patch "i40iw: Change mem_resources pointer to a u8" has been added to the 4.7-stable tree To: shiraz.saleem@intel.com, dledford@redhat.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, mustafa.ismail@intel.com, sassmann@redhat.com Cc: , From: Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2016 10:18:16 +0200 Message-ID: <147565549618150@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled i40iw: Change mem_resources pointer to a u8 to the 4.7-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: i40iw-change-mem_resources-pointer-to-a-u8.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.7 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let know about it. >>From 6c7d46fdb8165ece4b0a17fb8f0b9320dbfeffc2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shiraz Saleem Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 18:09:14 -0500 Subject: i40iw: Change mem_resources pointer to a u8 From: Shiraz Saleem commit 6c7d46fdb8165ece4b0a17fb8f0b9320dbfeffc2 upstream. iwdev->mem_resources is incorrectly defined as an unsigned long instead of u8. As a result, the offset into the dynamic allocated structures in i40iw_initialize_hw_resources() is incorrectly calculated and would lead to writing of memory regions outside of the allocated buffer. Fixes: 8e06af711bf2 ("i40iw: add main, hdr, status") Reported-by: Stefan Assmann Signed-off-by: Mustafa Ismail Signed-off-by: Shiraz Saleem Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/infiniband/hw/i40iw/i40iw.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/i40iw/i40iw.h +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/i40iw/i40iw.h @@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ struct i40iw_device { struct i40e_client *client; struct i40iw_hw hw; struct i40iw_cm_core cm_core; - unsigned long *mem_resources; + u8 *mem_resources; unsigned long *allocated_qps; unsigned long *allocated_cqs; unsigned long *allocated_mrs; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from shiraz.saleem@intel.com are queue-4.7/i40iw-update-hw_iwarp_state.patch queue-4.7/i40iw-add-missing-check-for-interface-already-open.patch queue-4.7/i40iw-fix-double-free-of-allocated_buffer.patch queue-4.7/i40iw-send-last-streaming-mode-message-for-loopback-connections.patch queue-4.7/i40iw-receive-notification-events-correctly.patch queue-4.7/i40iw-change-mem_resources-pointer-to-a-u8.patch queue-4.7/i40iw-protect-req_resource_num-update.patch queue-4.7/i40iw-add-missing-null-check-for-mpa-private-data.patch queue-4.7/i40iw-avoid-writing-to-freed-memory.patch queue-4.7/i40iw-do-not-set-self-referencing-pointer-to-null-after-kfree.patch