Patch "drm/mst: Fix error handling during MST sideband message reception" 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/mst: Fix error handling during MST sideband message reception

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-mst-fix-error-handling-during-mst-sideband-message-reception.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: Imre Deak <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 14:43:28 +0300
Subject: drm/mst: Fix error handling during MST sideband message reception

From: Imre Deak <[email protected]>

commit 448421b5e93b9177c5698f0cf6f5e72d2995eeca upstream.

Handle any error due to partial reads, timeouts etc. to avoid parsing uninitialized data subsequently. Also bail out if the parsing itself fails.

---
 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_mst_topology.c |   10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

@@ -2195,11 +2195,17 @@ static void drm_dp_get_one_sb_msg(struct
 		ret = drm_dp_dpcd_read(mgr->aux, basereg + curreply,
 				    replyblock, len);
 		if (ret != len) {
-			DRM_DEBUG_KMS("failed to read a chunk\n");
+			DRM_DEBUG_KMS("failed to read a chunk (len %d, ret %d)\n",
+				      len, ret);
+			return;
 		}
+
 		ret = drm_dp_sideband_msg_build(msg, replyblock, len, false);
-		if (ret == false)
+		if (!ret) {
 			DRM_DEBUG_KMS("failed to build sideband msg\n");
+			return;
+		}
+
 		curreply += len;
 		replylen -= len;
 	}

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

queue-4.4/drm-mst-avoid-dereferencing-a-null-mstb-in-drm_dp_mst_handle_up_req.patch queue-4.4/drm-mst-avoid-processing-partially-received-up-down-message-transactions.patch queue-4.4/drm-mst-fix-error-handling-during-mst-sideband-message-reception.patch