Patch "scsi: arcmsr: Simplify user_len checking" has been added to the 4.8-stable tree

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

scsi: arcmsr: Simplify user_len checking

to the 4.8-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:
scsi-arcmsr-simplify-user_len-checking.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory.

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

From: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 13:22:26 +0200
Subject: scsi: arcmsr: Simplify user_len checking

From: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>

commit 4bd173c30792791a6daca8c64793ec0a4ae8324f upstream.

Do the user_len check first and then the ver_addr allocation so that we can save us the kfree() on the error path when user_len is > ARCMSR_API_DATA_BUFLEN.

---
 drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr_hba.c |   14 ++++++++------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

@@ -2391,18 +2391,20 @@ static int arcmsr_iop_message_xfer(struc
 		uint32_t user_len;
 		int32_t cnt2end;
 		uint8_t *pQbuffer, *ptmpuserbuffer;
-		ver_addr = kmalloc(ARCMSR_API_DATA_BUFLEN, GFP_ATOMIC);
-		if (!ver_addr) {
+
+		user_len = pcmdmessagefld->cmdmessage.Length;
+		if (user_len > ARCMSR_API_DATA_BUFLEN) {
 			retvalue = ARCMSR_MESSAGE_FAIL;
 			goto message_out;
 		}
-		ptmpuserbuffer = ver_addr;
-		user_len = pcmdmessagefld->cmdmessage.Length;
-		if (user_len > ARCMSR_API_DATA_BUFLEN) {
+
+		ver_addr = kmalloc(ARCMSR_API_DATA_BUFLEN, GFP_ATOMIC);
+		if (!ver_addr) {
 			retvalue = ARCMSR_MESSAGE_FAIL;
-			kfree(ver_addr);
 			goto message_out;
 		}
+		ptmpuserbuffer = ver_addr;
+
 		memcpy(ptmpuserbuffer,
 			pcmdmessagefld->messagedatabuffer, user_len);
 		spin_lock_irqsave(&acb->wqbuffer_lock, flags);

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

queue-4.8/scsi-arcmsr-simplify-user_len-checking.patch