Patch "i40iw: Fix double free of allocated_buffer" has been added to the 4.7-stable tree

Patch "i40iw: Fix double free of allocated_buffer" has been added to the 4.7-stable tree

[gregkh]

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

    i40iw: Fix double free of allocated_buffer

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-fix-double-free-of-allocated_buffer.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 <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From d41d0910d97f05be987d2d60de7e8685c108963b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mustafa Ismail <mustafa.ismail@intel.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 16:50:13 -0500
Subject: i40iw: Fix double free of allocated_buffer

From: Mustafa Ismail <mustafa.ismail@intel.com>

commit d41d0910d97f05be987d2d60de7e8685c108963b upstream.

Memory allocated for iwqp; iwqp->allocated_buffer is freed twice in
the create_qp error path. Correct this by having it freed only once in
i40iw_free_qp_resources().

Fixes: d37498417947 ("i40iw: add files for iwarp interface")

Signed-off-by: Mustafa Ismail <mustafa.ismail@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shiraz Saleem <shiraz.saleem@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/infiniband/hw/i40iw/i40iw_verbs.c |    1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/i40iw/i40iw_verbs.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/i40iw/i40iw_verbs.c
@@ -794,7 +794,6 @@ static struct ib_qp *i40iw_create_qp(str
 	return &iwqp->ibqp;
 error:
 	i40iw_free_qp_resources(iwdev, iwqp, qp_num);
-	kfree(mem);
 	return ERR_PTR(err_code);
 }
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mustafa.ismail@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-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