This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    loopdev: remove an user triggerable oops

to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     loopdev-remove-an-user-triggerable-oops.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From b1a6650406875b9097a032eed89af50682fe1160 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guo Chao <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:16:49 -0800
Subject: loopdev: remove an user triggerable oops

From: Guo Chao <[email protected]>

commit b1a6650406875b9097a032eed89af50682fe1160 upstream.

When loopdev is built as module and we pass an invalid parameter,
loop_init() will return directly without deregister misc device, which
will cause an oops when insert loop module next time because we left some
garbage in the misc device list.

Test case:
sudo modprobe loop max_part=1024
(failed due to invalid parameter)
sudo modprobe loop
(oops)

Clean up nicely to avoid such oops.

Signed-off-by: Guo Chao <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Guo Chao <[email protected]>
Cc: M. Hindess <[email protected]>
Cc: Nikanth Karthikesan <[email protected]>
Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jeff Mahoney <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 drivers/block/loop.c |   22 ++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/block/loop.c
+++ b/drivers/block/loop.c
@@ -1835,11 +1835,15 @@ static int __init loop_init(void)
                max_part = (1UL << part_shift) - 1;
        }
 
-       if ((1UL << part_shift) > DISK_MAX_PARTS)
-               return -EINVAL;
+       if ((1UL << part_shift) > DISK_MAX_PARTS) {
+               err = -EINVAL;
+               goto misc_out;
+       }
 
-       if (max_loop > 1UL << (MINORBITS - part_shift))
-               return -EINVAL;
+       if (max_loop > 1UL << (MINORBITS - part_shift)) {
+               err = -EINVAL;
+               goto misc_out;
+       }
 
        /*
         * If max_loop is specified, create that many devices upfront.
@@ -1857,8 +1861,10 @@ static int __init loop_init(void)
                range = 1UL << MINORBITS;
        }
 
-       if (register_blkdev(LOOP_MAJOR, "loop"))
-               return -EIO;
+       if (register_blkdev(LOOP_MAJOR, "loop")) {
+               err = -EIO;
+               goto misc_out;
+       }
 
        blk_register_region(MKDEV(LOOP_MAJOR, 0), range,
                                  THIS_MODULE, loop_probe, NULL, NULL);
@@ -1871,6 +1877,10 @@ static int __init loop_init(void)
 
        printk(KERN_INFO "loop: module loaded\n");
        return 0;
+
+misc_out:
+       misc_deregister(&loop_misc);
+       return err;
 }
 
 static int loop_exit_cb(int id, void *ptr, void *data)


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] 
are

queue-3.4/loopdev-fix-a-deadlock.patch
queue-3.4/block-use-i_size_write-in-bd_set_size.patch
queue-3.4/loopdev-remove-an-user-triggerable-oops.patch
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