[4.2.y-ckt stable] Patch "crypto: caam - fix caam_jr_alloc() ret code" has been added to the 4.2.y-ckt tree

[Kamal Mostafa]

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

    crypto: caam - fix caam_jr_alloc() ret code

to the linux-4.2.y-queue branch of the 4.2.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    https://git.launchpad.net/~canonical-kernel/linux/+git/linux-stable-ckt/log/?h=linux-4.2.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 4.2.8-ckt12.

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

For more information about the 4.2.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From: Catalin Vasile <cata.vasile at nxp.com>
Date: Fri, 6 May 2016 16:18:53 +0300
Subject: crypto: caam - fix caam_jr_alloc() ret code

commit e930c765ca5c6b039cd22ebfb4504ea7b5dab43d upstream.

caam_jr_alloc() used to return NULL if a JR device could not be
allocated for a session. In turn, every user of this function used
IS_ERR() function to verify if anything went wrong, which does NOT look
for NULL values. This made the kernel crash if the sanity check failed,
because the driver continued to think it had allocated a valid JR dev
instance to the session and at some point it tries to do a caam_jr_free()
on a NULL JR dev pointer.
This patch is a fix for this issue.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Vasile <cata.vasile at nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert at gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/crypto/caam/jr.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/crypto/caam/jr.c b/drivers/crypto/caam/jr.c
index b8b5d47..9bfd410 100644
--- a/drivers/crypto/caam/jr.c
+++ b/drivers/crypto/caam/jr.c
@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ static void caam_jr_dequeue(unsigned long devarg)
 struct device *caam_jr_alloc(void)
 {
 	struct caam_drv_private_jr *jrpriv, *min_jrpriv = NULL;
-	struct device *dev = NULL;
+	struct device *dev = ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
 	int min_tfm_cnt	= INT_MAX;
 	int tfm_cnt;

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