FAILED: patch "[PATCH] staging: ccree: handle end of sg list gracefully" failed to apply to 4.15-stable tree

FAILED: patch "[PATCH] staging: ccree: handle end of sg list gracefully" failed to apply to 4.15-stable tree

[gregkh]

The patch below does not apply to the 4.15-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

>From 6e92010b012116d10a3750c0406e3da67f274498 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2018 12:14:25 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] staging: ccree: handle end of sg list gracefully

If we are asked for number of entries of an offset bigger than the
sg list we should not crash.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/drivers/staging/ccree/ssi_buffer_mgr.c b/drivers/staging/ccree/ssi_buffer_mgr.c
index 78288ed75281..0f7126404a32 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/ccree/ssi_buffer_mgr.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/ccree/ssi_buffer_mgr.c
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ static unsigned int cc_get_sgl_nents(struct device *dev,
 {
 	unsigned int nents = 0;
 
-	while (nbytes) {
+	while (nbytes && sg_list) {
 		if (sg_list->length) {
 			nents++;
 			/* get the number of bytes in the last entry */