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

nvme-fc: remove double put reference if admin connect fails

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: nvme-fc-remove-double-put-reference-if-admin-connect-fails.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 Wed Feb 28 16:23:28 CET 2018

From: James Smart jsmart2021@gmail.com Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 15:11:37 -0800 Subject: nvme-fc: remove double put reference if admin connect fails

From: James Smart jsmart2021@gmail.com

[ Upstream commit 4596e752db02d47038cd7c965419789ab15d1985 ]

There are two put references in the failure case of initial create_association. The first put actually frees the controller, thus the second put references freed memory.

Remove the unnecessary 2nd put.

Signed-off-by: James Smart james.smart@broadcom.com Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/nvme/host/fc.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/nvme/host/fc.c +++ b/drivers/nvme/host/fc.c @@ -2876,7 +2876,6 @@ nvme_fc_init_ctrl(struct device *dev, st

/* initiate nvme ctrl ref counting teardown */ nvme_uninit_ctrl(&ctrl->ctrl); - nvme_put_ctrl(&ctrl->ctrl);

/* Remove core ctrl ref. */ nvme_put_ctrl(&ctrl->ctrl);

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jsmart2021@gmail.com are

queue-4.14/nvme-fc-remove-double-put-reference-if-admin-connect-fails.patch