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

ipmi_ssif: unlock on allocation failure

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: ipmi_ssif-unlock-on-allocation-failure.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: Fri, 5 May 2017 08:33:24 +0300 Subject: ipmi_ssif: unlock on allocation failure

From: Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com

[ Upstream commit cf9806f32ef63b745f2486e0dbb2ac21f4ca44f0 ]

We should unlock and re-enable IRQs if this allocation fails.

Fixes: 259307074bfc ("ipmi: Add SMBus interface driver (SSIF) ") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard cminyard@mvista.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c @@ -409,6 +409,7 @@ static void start_event_fetch(struct ssi msg = ipmi_alloc_smi_msg(); if (!msg) { ssif_info->ssif_state = SSIF_NORMAL; + ipmi_ssif_unlock_cond(ssif_info, flags); return; }

@@ -431,6 +432,7 @@ static void start_recv_msg_fetch(struct msg = ipmi_alloc_smi_msg(); if (!msg) { ssif_info->ssif_state = SSIF_NORMAL; + ipmi_ssif_unlock_cond(ssif_info, flags); return; }

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