Patch "modules: fix modparam async_probe request" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

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

modules: fix modparam async_probe request

to the 4.4-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:
modules-fix-modparam-async_probe-request.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

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

From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2016 16:55:26 +1030
Subject: modules: fix modparam async_probe request

From: Luis R. Rodriguez <[email protected]>

commit 4355efbd80482a961cae849281a8ef866e53d55c upstream.

Commit f2411da746985 ("driver-core: add driver module asynchronous probe support") added async probe support, in two forms:

* in-kernel driver specification annotation
* generic async_probe module parameter (modprobe foo async_probe)

To support the generic kernel parameter parse_args() was extended via commit ecc8617053e0 ("module: add extra argument for parse_params() callback") however commit failed to f2411da746985 failed to add the required argument.

This causes a crash then whenever async_probe generic module parameter is used. This was overlooked when the form in which in-kernel async probe support was reworked a bit... Fix this as originally intended.

---
 kernel/module.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -3515,7 +3515,7 @@ static int load_module(struct load_info
 
 	/* Module is ready to execute: parsing args may do that. */
 	after_dashes = parse_args(mod->name, mod->args, mod->kp, mod->num_kp,
-				  -32768, 32767, NULL,
+				  -32768, 32767, mod,
 				  unknown_module_param_cb);
 	if (IS_ERR(after_dashes)) {
 		err = PTR_ERR(after_dashes);

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

queue-4.4/x86-uaccess-64-handle-the-caching-of-4-byte-nocache-copies-properly-in-__copy_user_nocache.patch queue-4.4/x86-mm-fix-vmalloc_fault-to-handle-large-pages-properly.patch queue-4.4/modules-fix-modparam-async_probe-request.patch queue-4.4/x86-uaccess-64-make-the-__copy_user_nocache-assembly-code-more-readable.patch