FAILED: patch "[PATCH] usbip: Fix uninitialized symbol 'nents' in" failed to apply to 4.9-stable tree

index 66edfeea68fe..e2b019532234 100644
@@ -470,18 +470,50 @@ static void stub_recv_cmd_submit(struct stub_device *sdev,
 	if (pipe == -1)
 		return;
 
+	/*
+	 * Smatch reported the error case where use_sg is true and buf_len is 0.
+	 * In this case, It adds SDEV_EVENT_ERROR_MALLOC and stub_priv will be
+	 * released by stub event handler and connection will be shut down.
+	 */
 	priv = stub_priv_alloc(sdev, pdu);
 	if (!priv)
 		return;
 
 	buf_len = (unsigned long long)pdu->u.cmd_submit.transfer_buffer_length;
 
+	if (use_sg && !buf_len) {
+		dev_err(&udev->dev, "sg buffer with zero length\n");
+		goto err_malloc;
+	}
+
 	/* allocate urb transfer buffer, if needed */
 	if (buf_len) {
 		if (use_sg) {
 			sgl = sgl_alloc(buf_len, GFP_KERNEL, &nents);
 			if (!sgl)
 				goto err_malloc;
+
+			/* Check if the server's HCD supports SG */
+			if (!udev->bus->sg_tablesize) {
+				/*
+				 * If the server's HCD doesn't support SG, break
+				 * a single SG request into several URBs and map
+				 * each SG list entry to corresponding URB
+				 * buffer. The previously allocated SG list is
+				 * stored in priv->sgl (If the server's HCD
+				 * support SG, SG list is stored only in
+				 * urb->sg) and it is used as an indicator that
+				 * the server split single SG request into
+				 * several URBs. Later, priv->sgl is used by
+				 * stub_complete() and stub_send_ret_submit() to
+				 * reassemble the divied URBs.
+				 */
+				support_sg = 0;
+				num_urbs = nents;
+				priv->completed_urbs = 0;
+				pdu->u.cmd_submit.transfer_flags &=
+								~URB_DMA_MAP_SG;
+			}
 		} else {
 			buffer = kzalloc(buf_len, GFP_KERNEL);
 			if (!buffer)

@@ -489,24 +521,6 @@ static void stub_recv_cmd_submit(struct stub_device *sdev,
 		}
 	}
 
-	/* Check if the server's HCD supports SG */
-	if (use_sg && !udev->bus->sg_tablesize) {
-		/*
-		 * If the server's HCD doesn't support SG, break a single SG
-		 * request into several URBs and map each SG list entry to
-		 * corresponding URB buffer. The previously allocated SG
-		 * list is stored in priv->sgl (If the server's HCD support SG,
-		 * SG list is stored only in urb->sg) and it is used as an
-		 * indicator that the server split single SG request into
-		 * several URBs. Later, priv->sgl is used by stub_complete() and
-		 * stub_send_ret_submit() to reassemble the divied URBs.
-		 */
-		support_sg = 0;
-		num_urbs = nents;
-		priv->completed_urbs = 0;
-		pdu->u.cmd_submit.transfer_flags &= ~URB_DMA_MAP_SG;
-	}
-
 	/* allocate urb array */
 	priv->num_urbs = num_urbs;
 	priv->urbs = kmalloc_array(num_urbs, sizeof(*priv->urbs), GFP_KERNEL);