From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753016AbcFIVzb (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Jun 2016 17:55:31 -0400 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]:50994 "EHLO youngberry.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932647AbcFIVSp (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Jun 2016 17:18:45 -0400 From: Kamal Mostafa To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com Cc: Catalin Vasile , Herbert Xu , Kamal Mostafa Subject: [PATCH 4.2.y-ckt 083/206] crypto: caam - fix caam_jr_alloc() ret code Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2016 14:14:52 -0700 Message-Id: <1465507015-23052-84-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.7.4 In-Reply-To: <1465507015-23052-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> References: <1465507015-23052-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> X-Extended-Stable: 4.2 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 4.2.8-ckt12 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ---8<------------------------------------------------------------ From: Catalin Vasile commit e930c765ca5c6b039cd22ebfb4504ea7b5dab43d upstream. caam_jr_alloc() used to return NULL if a JR device could not be allocated for a session. In turn, every user of this function used IS_ERR() function to verify if anything went wrong, which does NOT look for NULL values. This made the kernel crash if the sanity check failed, because the driver continued to think it had allocated a valid JR dev instance to the session and at some point it tries to do a caam_jr_free() on a NULL JR dev pointer. This patch is a fix for this issue. Signed-off-by: Catalin Vasile Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa --- drivers/crypto/caam/jr.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/crypto/caam/jr.c b/drivers/crypto/caam/jr.c index b8b5d47..9bfd410 100644 --- a/drivers/crypto/caam/jr.c +++ b/drivers/crypto/caam/jr.c @@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ static void caam_jr_dequeue(unsigned long devarg) struct device *caam_jr_alloc(void) { struct caam_drv_private_jr *jrpriv, *min_jrpriv = NULL; - struct device *dev = NULL; + struct device *dev = ERR_PTR(-ENODEV); int min_tfm_cnt = INT_MAX; int tfm_cnt; -- 2.7.4