This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
virtio_ring: fix num_free handling in error case
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: virtio_ring-fix-num_free-handling-in-error-case.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 e82df670235138575b37ff0ec24412a471efd97f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tiwei Bie tiwei.bie@intel.com Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 19:41:30 +0800 Subject: virtio_ring: fix num_free handling in error case
From: Tiwei Bie tiwei.bie@intel.com
commit e82df670235138575b37ff0ec24412a471efd97f upstream.
The vq->vq.num_free hasn't been changed when error happens, so it shouldn't be changed when handling the error.
Fixes: 780bc7903a32 ("virtio_ring: Support DMA APIs") Cc: Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin mst@redhat.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Tiwei Bie tiwei.bie@intel.com Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin mst@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c @@ -423,8 +423,6 @@ unmap_release: i = vq->vring.desc[i].next; }
- vq->vq.num_free += total_sg; - if (indirect) kfree(desc);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tiwei.bie@intel.com are
queue-4.9/virtio_ring-fix-num_free-handling-in-error-case.patch