[4.2.y-ckt stable] Patch "modules: fix modparam async_probe request" 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

    modules: fix modparam async_probe request

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

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-4.2.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 4.2.8-ckt5.

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

---8<------------------------------------------------------------

>From 694a93b669cd8b9a5d197f1a92e6246fb92ba05c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof at suse.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2016 16:55:26 +1030
Subject: modules: fix modparam async_probe request

commit 4355efbd80482a961cae849281a8ef866e53d55c upstream.

Commit f2411da746985 ("driver-core: add driver module
asynchronous probe support") added async probe support,
in two forms:

  * in-kernel driver specification annotation
  * generic async_probe module parameter (modprobe foo async_probe)

To support the generic kernel parameter parse_args() was
extended via commit ecc8617053e0 ("module: add extra
argument for parse_params() callback") however commit
failed to f2411da746985 failed to add the required argument.

This causes a crash then whenever async_probe generic
module parameter is used. This was overlooked when the
form in which in-kernel async probe support was reworked
a bit... Fix this as originally intended.

Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare at suse.de>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof at suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au> [minimized]
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 kernel/module.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index 38c7bd5..ac8f2fb 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -3515,7 +3515,7 @@ static int load_module(struct load_info *info, const char __user *uargs,

 	/* Module is ready to execute: parsing args may do that. */
 	after_dashes = parse_args(mod->name, mod->args, mod->kp, mod->num_kp,
-				  -32768, 32767, NULL,
+				  -32768, 32767, mod,
 				  unknown_module_param_cb);
 	if (IS_ERR(after_dashes)) {
 		err = PTR_ERR(after_dashes);
--
2.7.0