[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "NFSv4.1: Fix a kfree() of uninitialised pointers in decode_cb_sequence_args" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

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

    NFSv4.1: Fix a kfree() of uninitialised pointers in decode_cb_sequence_args

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?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt8.

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 237b8a4331002f3312b985d26176e354f015e418 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust at primarydata.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 17:27:55 -0500
Subject: NFSv4.1: Fix a kfree() of uninitialised pointers in
 decode_cb_sequence_args

commit d8ba1f971497c19cf80da1ea5391a46a5f9fbd41 upstream.

If the call to decode_rc_list() fails due to a memory allocation error,
then we need to truncate the array size to ensure that we only call
kfree() on those pointer that were allocated.

Reported-by: David Ramos <daramos at stanford.edu>
Fixes: 4aece6a19cf7f ("nfs41: cb_sequence xdr implementation")
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust at primarydata.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 fs/nfs/callback_xdr.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/nfs/callback_xdr.c b/fs/nfs/callback_xdr.c
index f4ccfe6521ec..02f8d09e119f 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/callback_xdr.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/callback_xdr.c
@@ -464,8 +464,10 @@ static __be32 decode_cb_sequence_args(struct svc_rqst *rqstp,

 		for (i = 0; i < args->csa_nrclists; i++) {
 			status = decode_rc_list(xdr, &args->csa_rclists[i]);
-			if (status)
+			if (status) {
+				args->csa_nrclists = i;
 				goto out_free;
+			}
 		}
 	}
 	status = 0;