[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "xen-netfront: update num_queues to real created" has been added to the 3.16.y-ckt tree

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Wed Feb 3 13:57:21 UTC 2016


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

    xen-netfront: update num_queues to real created

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt24.

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

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 05dc40ed96b49874f1bc8051db706a80cc6a5d00 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joe Jin <joe.jin at oracle.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 13:37:17 +0800
Subject: xen-netfront: update num_queues to real created

commit ca88ea1247dfee094e2467a3578eaec9bdf0833a upstream.

Sometimes xennet_create_queues() may failed to created all requested
queues, we need to update num_queues to real created to avoid NULL
pointer dereference.

Signed-off-by: Joe Jin <joe.jin at oracle.com>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky at oracle.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk at oracle.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2 at citrix.com>
Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell at citrix.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky at oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/xen-netfront.c | 14 +++++++-------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c b/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
index cb68b061754f..567d5c31dfd2 100644
--- a/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
+++ b/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
@@ -1804,19 +1804,19 @@ static void xennet_destroy_queues(struct netfront_info *info)
 }

 static int xennet_create_queues(struct netfront_info *info,
-				unsigned int num_queues)
+				unsigned int *num_queues)
 {
 	unsigned int i;
 	int ret;

-	info->queues = kcalloc(num_queues, sizeof(struct netfront_queue),
+	info->queues = kcalloc(*num_queues, sizeof(struct netfront_queue),
 			       GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!info->queues)
 		return -ENOMEM;

 	rtnl_lock();

-	for (i = 0; i < num_queues; i++) {
+	for (i = 0; i < *num_queues; i++) {
 		struct netfront_queue *queue = &info->queues[i];

 		queue->id = i;
@@ -1826,7 +1826,7 @@ static int xennet_create_queues(struct netfront_info *info,
 		if (ret < 0) {
 			dev_warn(&info->netdev->dev,
 				 "only created %d queues\n", i);
-			num_queues = i;
+			*num_queues = i;
 			break;
 		}

@@ -1836,11 +1836,11 @@ static int xennet_create_queues(struct netfront_info *info,
 			napi_enable(&queue->napi);
 	}

-	netif_set_real_num_tx_queues(info->netdev, num_queues);
+	netif_set_real_num_tx_queues(info->netdev, *num_queues);

 	rtnl_unlock();

-	if (num_queues == 0) {
+	if (*num_queues == 0) {
 		dev_err(&info->netdev->dev, "no queues\n");
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
@@ -1886,7 +1886,7 @@ static int talk_to_netback(struct xenbus_device *dev,
 	if (info->queues)
 		xennet_destroy_queues(info);

-	err = xennet_create_queues(info, num_queues);
+	err = xennet_create_queues(info, &num_queues);
 	if (err < 0)
 		goto destroy_ring;





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