[3.19.y-ckt stable] Patch "be2iscsi: set the boot_kset pointer to NULL in case of failure" has been added to the 3.19.y-ckt tree

[Kamal Mostafa]

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

    be2iscsi: set the boot_kset pointer to NULL in case of failure

to the linux-3.19.y-queue branch of the 3.19.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.19.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.19.8-ckt18.

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

For more information about the 3.19.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 863931dcf6a98aae90229a5d2f731ee0c8a29834 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Maurizio Lombardi <mlombard at redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2016 10:41:49 +0100
Subject: be2iscsi: set the boot_kset pointer to NULL in case of failure

commit 84bd64993f916bcf86270c67686ecf4cea7b8933 upstream.

In beiscsi_setup_boot_info(), the boot_kset pointer should be set to
NULL in case of failure otherwise an invalid pointer dereference may
occur later.

Signed-off-by: Maurizio Lombardi <mlombard at redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn at suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Jitendra Bhivare <jitendra.bhivare at broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen at oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/scsi/be2iscsi/be_main.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/be2iscsi/be_main.c b/drivers/scsi/be2iscsi/be_main.c
index 7a56f44..002a45d 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/be2iscsi/be_main.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/be2iscsi/be_main.c
@@ -4435,6 +4435,7 @@ put_shost:
 	scsi_host_put(phba->shost);
 free_kset:
 	iscsi_boot_destroy_kset(phba->boot_kset);
+	phba->boot_kset = NULL;
 	return -ENOMEM;
 }

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