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

igb: check memory allocation failure

to the 4.4-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: igb-check-memory-allocation-failure.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 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 10:35:49 CET 2017

From: Christophe JAILLET christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 08:39:51 +0200 Subject: igb: check memory allocation failure

From: Christophe JAILLET christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr

[ Upstream commit 18eb86362a52f0af933cc0fd5e37027317eb2d1c ]

Check memory allocation failures and return -ENOMEM in such cases, as already done for other memory allocations in this function.

This avoids NULL pointers dereference.

Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com Acked-by: PJ Waskiewicz peter.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c @@ -3005,6 +3005,8 @@ static int igb_sw_init(struct igb_adapte /* Setup and initialize a copy of the hw vlan table array */ adapter->shadow_vfta = kcalloc(E1000_VLAN_FILTER_TBL_SIZE, sizeof(u32), GFP_ATOMIC); + if (!adapter->shadow_vfta) + return -ENOMEM;

/* This call may decrease the number of queues */ if (igb_init_interrupt_scheme(adapter, true)) {

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr are

queue-4.4/igb-check-memory-allocation-failure.patch