Patch "IB/rxe: check for allocation failure on elem" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    IB/rxe: check for allocation failure on elem

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:
     ib-rxe-check-for-allocation-failure-on-elem.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 foo@baz Thu Dec 21 09:02:40 CET 2017
From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 15:37:45 +0100
Subject: IB/rxe: check for allocation failure on elem

From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>


[ Upstream commit 4831ca9e4a8e48cb27e0a792f73250390827a228 ]

The allocation for elem may fail (especially because we're using
GFP_ATOMIC) so best to check for a null return.  This fixes a potential
null pointer dereference when assigning elem->pool.

Detected by CoverityScan CID#1357507 ("Dereference null return value")

Fixes: 8700e3e7c485 ("Soft RoCE driver")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_pool.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_pool.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_pool.c
@@ -412,6 +412,8 @@ void *rxe_alloc(struct rxe_pool *pool)
 	elem = kmem_cache_zalloc(pool_cache(pool),
 				 (pool->flags & RXE_POOL_ATOMIC) ?
 				 GFP_ATOMIC : GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!elem)
+		return NULL;
 
 	elem->pool = pool;
 	kref_init(&elem->ref_cnt);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from colin.king@canonical.com are

queue-4.9/ib-rxe-check-for-allocation-failure-on-elem.patch