* Patch "r8152: fix the list rx_done may be used without initialization" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree
@ 2017-12-21 9:55 gregkh
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From: gregkh @ 2017-12-21 9:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: hayeswang, alexander.levin, davem, gregkh; +Cc: stable, stable-commits
This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
r8152: fix the list rx_done may be used without initialization
to the 3.18-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:
r8152-fix-the-list-rx_done-may-be-used-without-initialization.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 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 10:55:04 CET 2017
From: hayeswang <hayeswang@realtek.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 14:15:20 +0800
Subject: r8152: fix the list rx_done may be used without initialization
From: hayeswang <hayeswang@realtek.com>
[ Upstream commit 98d068ab52b4b11d403995ed14154660797e7136 ]
The list rx_done would be initialized when the linking on occurs.
Therefore, if a napi is scheduled without any linking on before,
the following kernel panic would happen.
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000008
IP: [<ffffffffc085efde>] r8152_poll+0xe1e/0x1210 [r8152]
PGD 0
Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP
Signed-off-by: Hayes Wang <hayeswang@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/net/usb/r8152.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/drivers/net/usb/r8152.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/r8152.c
@@ -1252,6 +1252,7 @@ static int alloc_all_mem(struct r8152 *t
spin_lock_init(&tp->tx_lock);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&tp->rx_done);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&tp->tx_free);
+ INIT_LIST_HEAD(&tp->rx_done);
skb_queue_head_init(&tp->tx_queue);
for (i = 0; i < RTL8152_MAX_RX; i++) {
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hayeswang@realtek.com are
queue-3.18/r8152-fix-the-list-rx_done-may-be-used-without-initialization.patch
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