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Patch "i40iw: Fix double free of allocated_buffer" has been added to the 4.7-stable tree

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

i40iw: Fix double free of allocated_buffer

to the 4.7-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
i40iw-fix-double-free-of-allocated_buffer.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.7 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

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From d41d0910d97f05be987d2d60de7e8685c108963b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Mustafa Ismail <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 16:50:13 -0500
Subject: i40iw: Fix double free of allocated_buffer

From: Mustafa Ismail <[email protected]>

commit d41d0910d97f05be987d2d60de7e8685c108963b upstream.

Memory allocated for iwqp; iwqp->allocated_buffer is freed twice in the create_qp error path. Correct this by having it freed only once in i40iw_free_qp_resources().

Fixes d37498417947 ("i40iw: add files for iwarp interface")
---
 drivers/infiniband/hw/i40iw/i40iw_verbs.c |    1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
drivers/infiniband/hw/i40iw/i40iw_verbs.c +0 -1
@@ -794,7 +794,6 @@ static struct ib_qp *i40iw_create_qp(str
 	return &iwqp->ibqp;
 error:
 	i40iw_free_qp_resources(iwdev, iwqp, qp_num);
-	kfree(mem);
 	return ERR_PTR(err_code);
 }
 

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.7/i40iw-update-hw_iwarp_state.patch queue-4.7/i40iw-add-missing-check-for-interface-already-open.patch queue-4.7/i40iw-fix-double-free-of-allocated_buffer.patch queue-4.7/i40iw-receive-notification-events-correctly.patch queue-4.7/i40iw-change-mem_resources-pointer-to-a-u8.patch queue-4.7/i40iw-protect-req_resource_num-update.patch queue-4.7/i40iw-add-missing-null-check-for-mpa-private-data.patch queue-4.7/i40iw-avoid-writing-to-freed-memory.patch queue-4.7/i40iw-do-not-set-self-referencing-pointer-to-null-after-kfree.patch