[3.13.y.z extended stable] Patch "iscsi-target: avoid NULL pointer in iscsi_copy_param_list failure" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    iscsi-target: avoid NULL pointer in iscsi_copy_param_list failure

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11.9.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.13.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 10926a5d551770c4d92c78d4cfcd98fb099d273c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joern Engel <joern at logfs.org>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 17:49:54 -0400
Subject: iscsi-target: avoid NULL pointer in iscsi_copy_param_list failure

commit 8ae757d09c45102b347a1bc2867f54ffc1ab8fda upstream.

In iscsi_copy_param_list() a failed iscsi_param_list memory allocation
currently invokes iscsi_release_param_list() to cleanup, and will promptly
trigger a NULL pointer dereference.

Instead, go ahead and return for the first iscsi_copy_param_list()
failure case.

Found by coverity.

Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern at logfs.org>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab at linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_parameters.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_parameters.c b/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_parameters.c
index 4d2e23f..43b7e6a 100644
--- a/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_parameters.c
+++ b/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_parameters.c
@@ -601,7 +601,7 @@ int iscsi_copy_param_list(
 	param_list = kzalloc(sizeof(struct iscsi_param_list), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!param_list) {
 		pr_err("Unable to allocate memory for struct iscsi_param_list.\n");
-		goto err_out;
+		return -1;
 	}
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&param_list->param_list);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&param_list->extra_response_list);
--
1.9.1