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

irda: vlsi_ir: fix check for DMA mapping errors

to the 3.18-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: irda-vlsi_ir-fix-check-for-dma-mapping-errors.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: Alexey Khoroshilov khoroshilov@ispras.ru Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2017 01:48:08 +0300 Subject: irda: vlsi_ir: fix check for DMA mapping errors

From: Alexey Khoroshilov khoroshilov@ispras.ru

[ Upstream commit 6ac3b77a6ffff7513ff86b684aa256ea01c0e5b5 ]

vlsi_alloc_ring() checks for DMA mapping errors by comparing returned address with zero, while pci_dma_mapping_error() should be used.

Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).

Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov khoroshilov@ispras.ru 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/irda/vlsi_ir.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/irda/vlsi_ir.c +++ b/drivers/net/irda/vlsi_ir.c @@ -426,8 +426,9 @@ static struct vlsi_ring *vlsi_alloc_ring memset(rd, 0, sizeof(*rd)); rd->hw = hwmap + i; rd->buf = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL|GFP_DMA); - if (rd->buf == NULL || - !(busaddr = pci_map_single(pdev, rd->buf, len, dir))) { + if (rd->buf) + busaddr = pci_map_single(pdev, rd->buf, len, dir); + if (rd->buf == NULL || pci_dma_mapping_error(pdev, busaddr)) { if (rd->buf) { IRDA_ERROR("%s: failed to create PCI-MAP for %p", __func__, rd->buf); @@ -438,8 +439,7 @@ static struct vlsi_ring *vlsi_alloc_ring rd = r->rd + j; busaddr = rd_get_addr(rd); rd_set_addr_status(rd, 0, 0); - if (busaddr) - pci_unmap_single(pdev, busaddr, len, dir); + pci_unmap_single(pdev, busaddr, len, dir); kfree(rd->buf); rd->buf = NULL; }

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from khoroshilov@ispras.ru are

queue-3.18/irda-vlsi_ir-fix-check-for-dma-mapping-errors.patch