Patch "drm/nouveau: prevent userspace from deleting client object" 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

drm/nouveau: prevent userspace from deleting client object

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:
drm-nouveau-prevent-userspace-from-deleting-client-object.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: Ben Skeggs <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 21:54:08 -0400
Subject: drm/nouveau: prevent userspace from deleting client object

From: Ben Skeggs <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit c966b6279f610a24ac1d42dcbe30e10fa61220b2 ]

---
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_usif.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -313,7 +313,8 @@ usif_ioctl(struct drm_file *filp, void _
 	if (nvif_unpack(argv->v0, 0, 0, true)) {
 		/* block access to objects not created via this interface */
 		owner = argv->v0.owner;
-		if (argv->v0.object == 0ULL)
+		if (argv->v0.object == 0ULL &&
+		    argv->v0.type != NVIF_IOCTL_V0_DEL)
 			argv->v0.owner = NVDRM_OBJECT_ANY; /* except client */
 		else
 			argv->v0.owner = NVDRM_OBJECT_USIF;

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

queue-4.4/drm-nouveau-prevent-userspace-from-deleting-client-object.patch