Patch "drm/amdkfd: NULL dereference involving create_process()" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

Patch "drm/amdkfd: NULL dereference involving create_process()" 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

    drm/amdkfd: NULL dereference involving create_process()

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:
     drm-amdkfd-null-dereference-involving-create_process.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 Mon Apr  9 17:09:24 CEST 2018
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 13:58:53 +0300
Subject: drm/amdkfd: NULL dereference involving create_process()

From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>


[ Upstream commit b312b2b25b6ac9e2eb03f4ca651b33108752de3a ]

We accidentally return ERR_PTR(0) which is NULL.  The caller is not
expecting that and it leads to an Oops.

Fixes: dd59239a9862 ("amdkfd: init aperture once per process")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Felix Kuehling <felix.kuehling@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_process.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_process.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_process.c
@@ -317,7 +317,8 @@ static struct kfd_process *create_proces
 
 	/* init process apertures*/
 	process->is_32bit_user_mode = in_compat_syscall();
-	if (kfd_init_apertures(process) != 0)
+	err = kfd_init_apertures(process);
+	if (err != 0)
 		goto err_init_apretures;
 
 	return process;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.carpenter@oracle.com are

queue-4.9/block-fix-an-error-code-in-add_partition.patch
queue-4.9/x.509-fix-error-code-in-x509_cert_parse.patch
queue-4.9/rdma-iw_cxgb4-avoid-touch-after-free-error-in-arp-failure-handlers.patch
queue-4.9/drm-amdkfd-null-dereference-involving-create_process.patch
queue-4.9/pnfs-flexfiles-missing-error-code-in-ff_layout_alloc_lseg.patch
queue-4.9/drivers-misc-vmw_vmci-vmci_queue_pair.c-fix-a-couple-integer-overflow-tests.patch
queue-4.9/cxl-unlock-on-error-in-probe.patch
queue-4.9/md-cluster-fix-potential-lock-issue-in-add_new_disk.patch
queue-4.9/ipmi_ssif-unlock-on-allocation-failure.patch
queue-4.9/powercap-fix-an-error-code-in-powercap_register_zone.patch
queue-4.9/perf-core-fix-error-handling-in-perf_event_alloc.patch
queue-4.9/libceph-null-deref-on-crush_decode-error-path.patch