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* Patch "efi/esrt: Use memunmap() instead of kfree() to free the remapping" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree
@ 2017-12-11 22:17 gregkh
  2017-12-12  1:52 ` Nathan Chancellor
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: gregkh @ 2017-12-11 22:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: bianpan2016, ard.biesheuvel, gregkh, hpa, matt, mingo, peterz,
	tglx, torvalds
  Cc: stable, stable-commits


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

    efi/esrt: Use memunmap() instead of kfree() to free the remapping

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:
     efi-esrt-use-memunmap-instead-of-kfree-to-free-the-remapping.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 89c5a2d34bda58319e3075e8e7dd727ea25a435c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@163.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 09:50:09 +0000
Subject: efi/esrt: Use memunmap() instead of kfree() to free the remapping

From: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@163.com>

commit 89c5a2d34bda58319e3075e8e7dd727ea25a435c upstream.

The remapping result of memremap() should be freed with memunmap(), not kfree().

Signed-off-by: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@163.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171206095010.24170-3-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/firmware/efi/esrt.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/esrt.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/esrt.c
@@ -442,7 +442,7 @@ err_remove_group:
 err_remove_esrt:
 	kobject_put(esrt_kobj);
 err:
-	kfree(esrt);
+	memunmap(esrt);
 	esrt = NULL;
 	return error;
 }


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bianpan2016@163.com are

queue-4.4/efi-esrt-use-memunmap-instead-of-kfree-to-free-the-remapping.patch

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* Re: Patch "efi/esrt: Use memunmap() instead of kfree() to free the remapping" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree
  2017-12-11 22:17 Patch "efi/esrt: Use memunmap() instead of kfree() to free the remapping" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree gregkh
@ 2017-12-12  1:52 ` Nathan Chancellor
  2017-12-12  9:11   ` Greg KH
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Nathan Chancellor @ 2017-12-12  1:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: gregkh
  Cc: bianpan2016, ard.biesheuvel, hpa, matt, mingo, peterz, tglx,
	torvalds, stable, stable-commits

On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 11:17:40PM +0100, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> 
> This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> 
>     efi/esrt: Use memunmap() instead of kfree() to free the remapping
> 
> 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:
>      efi-esrt-use-memunmap-instead-of-kfree-to-free-the-remapping.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 89c5a2d34bda58319e3075e8e7dd727ea25a435c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@163.com>
> Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 09:50:09 +0000
> Subject: efi/esrt: Use memunmap() instead of kfree() to free the remapping
> 
> From: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@163.com>
> 
> commit 89c5a2d34bda58319e3075e8e7dd727ea25a435c upstream.
> 
> The remapping result of memremap() should be freed with memunmap(), not kfree().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@163.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171206095010.24170-3-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> 
> ---
>  drivers/firmware/efi/esrt.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/esrt.c
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/esrt.c
> @@ -442,7 +442,7 @@ err_remove_group:
>  err_remove_esrt:
>  	kobject_put(esrt_kobj);
>  err:
> -	kfree(esrt);
> +	memunmap(esrt);
>  	esrt = NULL;
>  	return error;
>  }
> 
> 
> Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bianpan2016@163.com are
> 
> queue-4.4/efi-esrt-use-memunmap-instead-of-kfree-to-free-the-remapping.patch

This caused my build to error since it is missing the include statement
added in commit f58a37b2e01f ("efi/esrt: Use memremap not ioremap to
access ESRT table in memory") upstream. Once that was added, everything
appears to be fine.

Cheers!
Nathan

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* Re: Patch "efi/esrt: Use memunmap() instead of kfree() to free the remapping" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree
  2017-12-12  1:52 ` Nathan Chancellor
@ 2017-12-12  9:11   ` Greg KH
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Greg KH @ 2017-12-12  9:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Nathan Chancellor
  Cc: bianpan2016, ard.biesheuvel, hpa, matt, mingo, peterz, tglx,
	torvalds, stable, stable-commits

On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 06:52:10PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 11:17:40PM +0100, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> > 
> > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> > 
> >     efi/esrt: Use memunmap() instead of kfree() to free the remapping
> > 
> > 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:
> >      efi-esrt-use-memunmap-instead-of-kfree-to-free-the-remapping.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 89c5a2d34bda58319e3075e8e7dd727ea25a435c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@163.com>
> > Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 09:50:09 +0000
> > Subject: efi/esrt: Use memunmap() instead of kfree() to free the remapping
> > 
> > From: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@163.com>
> > 
> > commit 89c5a2d34bda58319e3075e8e7dd727ea25a435c upstream.
> > 
> > The remapping result of memremap() should be freed with memunmap(), not kfree().
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@163.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
> > Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
> > Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> > Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
> > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> > Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
> > Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171206095010.24170-3-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org
> > Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > 
> > ---
> >  drivers/firmware/efi/esrt.c |    2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/esrt.c
> > +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/esrt.c
> > @@ -442,7 +442,7 @@ err_remove_group:
> >  err_remove_esrt:
> >  	kobject_put(esrt_kobj);
> >  err:
> > -	kfree(esrt);
> > +	memunmap(esrt);
> >  	esrt = NULL;
> >  	return error;
> >  }
> > 
> > 
> > Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bianpan2016@163.com are
> > 
> > queue-4.4/efi-esrt-use-memunmap-instead-of-kfree-to-free-the-remapping.patch
> 
> This caused my build to error since it is missing the include statement
> added in commit f58a37b2e01f ("efi/esrt: Use memremap not ioremap to
> access ESRT table in memory") upstream. Once that was added, everything
> appears to be fine.

Thanks, now fixed up.

greg k-h

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