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Patch "libnvdimm, pmem: fix kmap_atomic() leak in error path" has been added to the 4.5-stable tree

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

libnvdimm, pmem: fix kmap_atomic() leak in error path

to the 4.5-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:
libnvdimm-pmem-fix-kmap_atomic-leak-in-error-path.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.5 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 b5ebc8ec693281c3c1efff7459a069cbd8b9a149 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2016 15:20:51 -0800
Subject: libnvdimm, pmem: fix kmap_atomic() leak in error path

From: Dan Williams <[email protected]>

commit b5ebc8ec693281c3c1efff7459a069cbd8b9a149 upstream.

When we enounter a bad block we need to kunmap_atomic() before returning.

---
 drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c |   11 +++++++----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c +7 -4
@@ -66,22 +66,25 @@ static int pmem_do_bvec(struct pmem_devi
 			unsigned int len, unsigned int off, int rw,
 			sector_t sector)
 {
+	int rc = 0;
 	void *mem = kmap_atomic(page);
 	phys_addr_t pmem_off = sector * 512 + pmem->data_offset;
 	void __pmem *pmem_addr = pmem->virt_addr + pmem_off;
 
 	if (rw == READ) {
 		if (unlikely(is_bad_pmem(&pmem->bb, sector, len)))
-			return -EIO;
-		memcpy_from_pmem(mem + off, pmem_addr, len);
-		flush_dcache_page(page);
+			rc = -EIO;
+		else {
+			memcpy_from_pmem(mem + off, pmem_addr, len);
+			flush_dcache_page(page);
+		}
 	} else {
 		flush_dcache_page(page);
 		memcpy_to_pmem(pmem_addr, mem + off, len);
 	}
 
 	kunmap_atomic(mem);
-	return 0;
+	return rc;
 }
 
 static blk_qc_t pmem_make_request(struct request_queue *q, struct bio *bio)

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

queue-4.5/libnvdimm-fix-security-issue-with-dsm-ioctl.patch queue-4.5/libnvdimm-pmem-fix-kmap_atomic-leak-in-error-path.patch