Patch "bsg-lib: don't free job in bsg_prepare_job" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

Patch "bsg-lib: don't free job in bsg_prepare_job" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[gregkh]

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

    bsg-lib: don't free job in bsg_prepare_job

to the 4.9-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:
     bsg-lib-don-t-free-job-in-bsg_prepare_job.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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 f507b54dccfd8000c517d740bc45f20c74532d18 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2017 13:54:35 +0200
Subject: bsg-lib: don't free job in bsg_prepare_job

From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

commit f507b54dccfd8000c517d740bc45f20c74532d18 upstream.

The job structure is allocated as part of the request, so we should not
free it in the error path of bsg_prepare_job.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 block/bsg-lib.c |    1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

--- a/block/bsg-lib.c
+++ b/block/bsg-lib.c
@@ -147,7 +147,6 @@ static int bsg_create_job(struct device
 failjob_rls_rqst_payload:
 	kfree(job->request_payload.sg_list);
 failjob_rls_job:
-	kfree(job);
 	return -ENOMEM;
 }
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hch@lst.de are

queue-4.9/xfs-validate-bdev-support-for-dax-inode-flag.patch
queue-4.9/bsg-lib-don-t-free-job-in-bsg_prepare_job.patch