FAILED: patch "[PATCH] drbd: fix an invalid memory access caused by incorrect use of" failed to apply to 4.14-stable tree

The patch below does not apply to the 4.14-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From ae4d37b5df749926891583d42a6801b5da11e3c1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Xiaomeng Tong <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2022 21:04:44 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] drbd: fix an invalid memory access caused by incorrect use of
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The bug is here:

	idr_remove(&connection->peer_devices, vnr);

If the previous for_each_connection() don't exit early (no goto hit inside the loop), the iterator 'connection' after the loop will be a bogus pointer to an invalid structure object containing the HEAD (&resource->connections). As a result, the use of 'connection' above will lead to a invalid memory access (including a possible invalid free as idr_remove could call free_layer).

The original intention should have been to remove all peer_devices, but the following lines have already done the work. So just remove this line and the unneeded label, to fix this bug.

index 9676a1d214bc..d6dfa286ddb3 100644
@@ -2773,12 +2773,12 @@ enum drbd_ret_code drbd_create_device(struct drbd_config_context *adm_ctx, unsig
 
 	if (init_submitter(device)) {
 		err = ERR_NOMEM;
-		goto out_idr_remove_vol;
+		goto out_idr_remove_from_resource;
 	}
 
 	err = add_disk(disk);
 	if (err)
-		goto out_idr_remove_vol;
+		goto out_idr_remove_from_resource;
 
 	/* inherit the connection state */
 	device->state.conn = first_connection(resource)->cstate;

@@ -2792,8 +2792,6 @@ enum drbd_ret_code drbd_create_device(struct drbd_config_context *adm_ctx, unsig
 	drbd_debugfs_device_add(device);
 	return NO_ERROR;
 
-out_idr_remove_vol:
-	idr_remove(&connection->peer_devices, vnr);
 out_idr_remove_from_resource:
 	for_each_connection(connection, resource) {
 		peer_device = idr_remove(&connection->peer_devices, vnr);