4.4-stable patches

added patches:
	kobject-export-kobject_get_unless_zero.patch

diff --git a/queue-4.4/kobject-export-kobject_get_unless_zero.patch b/queue-4.4/kobject-export-kobject_get_unless_zero.patch
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..441f7ff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/queue-4.4/kobject-export-kobject_get_unless_zero.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+From c70c176ff8c3ff0ac6ef9a831cd591ea9a66bd1a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
+Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 01:37:01 +0100
+Subject: kobject: Export kobject_get_unless_zero()
+
+From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
+
+commit c70c176ff8c3ff0ac6ef9a831cd591ea9a66bd1a upstream.
+
+Make the function available for outside use and fortify it against NULL
+kobject.
+
+CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
+Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
+Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
+Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
+Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
+Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
+
+---
+ include/linux/kobject.h |    2 ++
+ lib/kobject.c           |    5 ++++-
+ 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+--- a/include/linux/kobject.h
++++ b/include/linux/kobject.h
+@@ -108,6 +108,8 @@ extern int __must_check kobject_rename(s
+ extern int __must_check kobject_move(struct kobject *, struct kobject *);
+ 
+ extern struct kobject *kobject_get(struct kobject *kobj);
++extern struct kobject * __must_check kobject_get_unless_zero(
++                                              struct kobject *kobj);
+ extern void kobject_put(struct kobject *kobj);
+ 
+ extern const void *kobject_namespace(struct kobject *kobj);
+--- a/lib/kobject.c
++++ b/lib/kobject.c
+@@ -599,12 +599,15 @@ struct kobject *kobject_get(struct kobje
+ }
+ EXPORT_SYMBOL(kobject_get);
+ 
+-static struct kobject * __must_check kobject_get_unless_zero(struct kobject *kobj)
++struct kobject * __must_check kobject_get_unless_zero(struct kobject *kobj)
+ {
++      if (!kobj)
++              return NULL;
+       if (!kref_get_unless_zero(&kobj->kref))
+               kobj = NULL;
+       return kobj;
+ }
++EXPORT_SYMBOL(kobject_get_unless_zero);
+ 
+ /*
+  * kobject_cleanup - free kobject resources.

diff --git a/queue-4.4/series b/queue-4.4/series
index 27ac0106d584228accfe7b03fc44c24a7b78a1b4..ed56204cbce98e4d1245207bb4787e606605e6f4 100644 (file)
--- a/queue-4.4/series
+++ b/queue-4.4/series
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
+kobject-export-kobject_get_unless_zero.patch
 chardev-avoid-potential-use-after-free-in-chrdev_open.patch