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[3.16.y-ckt,stable] Patch "be2iscsi: set the boot_kset pointer to NULL in case of failure" has been added to the 3.16.y-ckt tree

Message ID 1460395377-14356-1-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com
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Luis Henriques April 11, 2016, 5:22 p.m. UTC
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-3.16.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-ckt27.

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 1a46fcfac3d1282b2cdbbb8ce0ba38ae5cc725ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Maurizio Lombardi <mlombard@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@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Jitendra Bhivare <jitendra.bhivare@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
---
 drivers/scsi/be2iscsi/be_main.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
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diff --git a/drivers/scsi/be2iscsi/be_main.c b/drivers/scsi/be2iscsi/be_main.c
index 5d13d109d9a2..803fd64d0966 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/be2iscsi/be_main.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/be2iscsi/be_main.c
@@ -4420,6 +4420,7 @@  put_shost:
 	scsi_host_put(phba->shost);
 free_kset:
 	iscsi_boot_destroy_kset(phba->boot_kset);
+	phba->boot_kset = NULL;
 	return -ENOMEM;
 }