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

misc: pci_endpoint_test: Avoid triggering a BUG()

to the 4.14-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: misc-pci_endpoint_test-avoid-triggering-a-bug.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 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 Dec 18 13:28:59 CET 2017

From: Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2017 11:16:51 +0300 Subject: misc: pci_endpoint_test: Avoid triggering a BUG()

From: Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com

[ Upstream commit 846df244ebefbc9f7b91e9ae7a5e5a2e69fb4772 ]

If you call ida_simple_remove(&pci_endpoint_test_ida, id) with a negative "id" then it triggers an immediate BUG_ON(). Let's not allow that.

Fixes: 2c156ac71c6b ("misc: Add host side PCI driver for PCI test function device") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/misc/pci_endpoint_test.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/misc/pci_endpoint_test.c +++ b/drivers/misc/pci_endpoint_test.c @@ -590,6 +590,8 @@ static void pci_endpoint_test_remove(str

if (sscanf(misc_device->name, DRV_MODULE_NAME ".%d", &id) != 1) return; + if (id < 0) + return;

misc_deregister(&test->miscdev); ida_simple_remove(&pci_endpoint_test_ida, id);

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

queue-4.14/scsi-bfa-integer-overflow-in-debugfs.patch queue-4.14/fbdev-controlfb-add-missing-modes-to-fix-out-of-bounds-access.patch queue-4.14/misc-pci_endpoint_test-avoid-triggering-a-bug.patch