Patch "IB/core: correctly handle rdma_rw_init_mrs() failure" 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

IB/core: correctly handle rdma_rw_init_mrs() failure

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:
ib-core-correctly-handle-rdma_rw_init_mrs-failure.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: Steve Wise <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 07:31:33 -0700
Subject: IB/core: correctly handle rdma_rw_init_mrs() failure

From: Steve Wise <[email protected]>

commit b6bc1c731f0b985e91f618561fc82c6e252dfaf4 upstream.

Function ib_create_qp() was failing to return an error when rdma_rw_init_mrs() fails, causing a crash further down in ib_create_qp() when trying to dereferece the qp pointer which was actually a negative errno.

The crash:

crash> log|grep BUG

[  136.458121] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000098

crash> bt
PID: 3736 TASK: ffff8808543215c0 CPU: 2 COMMAND: "kworker/u64:2"
#0 [ffff88084d323340] machine_kexec at ffffffff8105fbb0 #1 [ffff88084d3233b0] __crash_kexec at ffffffff81116758 #2 [ffff88084d323480] crash_kexec at ffffffff8111682d #3 [ffff88084d3234b0] oops_end at ffffffff81032bd6
#4 [ffff88084d3234e0] no_context at ffffffff8106e431 #5 [ffff88084d323530] __bad_area_nosemaphore at ffffffff8106e610 #6 [ffff88084d323590] bad_area_nosemaphore at ffffffff8106e6f4 #7 [ffff88084d3235a0] __do_page_fault at ffffffff8106ebdc #8 [ffff88084d323620] do_page_fault at ffffffff8106f057 #9 [ffff88084d323660] page_fault at ffffffff816e3148

    [exception RIP: ib_create_qp+427]
    RIP: ffffffffa02554fb  RSP: ffff88084d323718  RFLAGS: 00010246
    RAX: 0000000000000004  RBX: fffffffffffffff4  RCX: 000000018020001f
    RDX: ffff880830997fc0  RSI: 0000000000000001  RDI: ffff88085f407200
    RBP: ffff88084d323778   R8: 0000000000000001   R9: ffffea0020bae210
    R10: ffffea0020bae218  R11: 0000000000000001  R12: ffff88084d3237c8
    R13: 00000000fffffff4  R14: ffff880859fa5000  R15: ffff88082eb89800
    ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff  CS: 0010  SS: 0018

#10 [ffff88084d323780] rdma_create_qp at ffffffffa0782681 [rdma_cm] #11 [ffff88084d3237b0] nvmet_rdma_create_queue_ib at ffffffffa07c43f3 [nvmet_rdma] #12 [ffff88084d323860] nvmet_rdma_alloc_queue at ffffffffa07c5ba9 [nvmet_rdma] #13 [ffff88084d323900] nvmet_rdma_queue_connect at ffffffffa07c5c96 [nvmet_rdma] #14 [ffff88084d323980] nvmet_rdma_cm_handler at ffffffffa07c6450 [nvmet_rdma] #15 [ffff88084d3239b0] iw_conn_req_handler at ffffffffa0787480 [rdma_cm] #16 [ffff88084d323a60] cm_conn_req_handler at ffffffffa0775f06 [iw_cm] #17 [ffff88084d323ab0] process_event at ffffffffa0776019 [iw_cm]
#18 [ffff88084d323af0] cm_work_handler at ffffffffa0776170 [iw_cm] #19 [ffff88084d323cb0] process_one_work at ffffffff810a1483
#20 [ffff88084d323d90] worker_thread at ffffffff810a211d
#21 [ffff88084d323ec0] kthread at ffffffff810a6c5c
#22 [ffff88084d323f50] ret_from_fork at ffffffff816e1ebf

---
 drivers/infiniband/core/verbs.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -821,7 +821,7 @@ struct ib_qp *ib_create_qp(struct ib_pd
 		if (ret) {
 			pr_err("failed to init MR pool ret= %d\n", ret);
 			ib_destroy_qp(qp);
-			qp = ERR_PTR(ret);
+			return ERR_PTR(ret);
 		}
 	}
 

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

queue-4.8/ib-core-correctly-handle-rdma_rw_init_mrs-failure.patch