Merge 4.4.286 into android-4.4-p

Changes in 4.4.286
	usb: gadget: r8a66597: fix a loop in set_feature()
	usb: musb: tusb6010: uninitialized data in tusb_fifo_write_unaligned()
	cifs: fix incorrect check for null pointer in header_assemble
	xen/x86: fix PV trap handling on secondary processors
	USB: serial: cp210x: add ID for GW Instek GDM-834x Digital Multimeter
	USB: serial: mos7840: remove duplicated 0xac24 device ID
	USB: serial: option: add Telit LN920 compositions
	USB: serial: option: remove duplicate USB device ID
	USB: serial: option: add device id for Foxconn T99W265
	net: hso: fix muxed tty registration
	net/mlx4_en: Don't allow aRFS for encapsulated packets
	scsi: iscsi: Adjust iface sysfs attr detection
	blktrace: Fix uaf in blk_trace access after removing by sysfs
	m68k: Double cast io functions to unsigned long
	compiler.h: Introduce absolute_pointer macro
	net: i825xx: Use absolute_pointer for memcpy from fixed memory location
	sparc: avoid stringop-overread errors
	qnx4: avoid stringop-overread errors
	parisc: Use absolute_pointer() to define PAGE0
	arm64: Mark __stack_chk_guard as __ro_after_init
	alpha: Declare virt_to_phys and virt_to_bus parameter as pointer to volatile
	net: 6pack: Fix tx timeout and slot time
	spi: Fix tegra20 build with CONFIG_PM=n
	qnx4: work around gcc false positive warning bug
	tty: Fix out-of-bound vmalloc access in imageblit
	mac80211: fix use-after-free in CCMP/GCMP RX
	ipvs: check that ip_vs_conn_tab_bits is between 8 and 20
	e100: fix length calculation in e100_get_regs_len
	e100: fix buffer overrun in e100_get_regs
	ipack: ipoctal: fix stack information leak
	ipack: ipoctal: fix tty registration race
	ipack: ipoctal: fix tty-registration error handling
	ipack: ipoctal: fix missing allocation-failure check
	ipack: ipoctal: fix module reference leak
	ext4: fix potential infinite loop in ext4_dx_readdir()
	EDAC/synopsys: Fix wrong value type assignment for edac_mode
	arm64: Extend workaround for erratum 1024718 to all versions of Cortex-A55
	HID: betop: fix slab-out-of-bounds Write in betop_probe
	netfilter: ipset: Fix oversized kvmalloc() calls
	HID: usbhid: free raw_report buffers in usbhid_stop
	cred: allow get_cred() and put_cred() to be given NULL.
	Linux 4.4.286

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@google.com>
Change-Id: I3180bfeaddc99c8d216f932c9f149060cc60f16e

2 files changed, 11 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h
index 7cabe0cc8665..bc8077e5e688 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
@@ -208,6 +208,8 @@ void ftrace_likely_update(struct ftrace_branch_data *f, int val, int expect);
     (typeof(ptr)) (__ptr + (off)); })
 #endif
 
+#define absolute_pointer(val)	RELOC_HIDE((void *)(val), 0)
+
 #ifndef OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR
 #define OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR(var) barrier()
 #endif
diff --git a/include/linux/cred.h b/include/linux/cred.h
index d2db1da3036c..ee2b36cdb80d 100644
--- a/include/linux/cred.h
+++ b/include/linux/cred.h
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ static inline struct cred *get_new_cred(struct cred *cred)
  * @cred: The credentials to reference
  *
  * Get a reference on the specified set of credentials.  The caller must
- * release the reference.
+ * release the reference.  If %NULL is passed, it is returned with no action.
  *
  * This is used to deal with a committed set of credentials.  Although the
  * pointer is const, this will temporarily discard the const and increment the
@@ -254,6 +254,8 @@ static inline struct cred *get_new_cred(struct cred *cred)
 static inline const struct cred *get_cred(const struct cred *cred)
 {
 	struct cred *nonconst_cred = (struct cred *) cred;
+	if (!cred)
+		return cred;
 	validate_creds(cred);
 	nonconst_cred->non_rcu = 0;
 	return get_new_cred(nonconst_cred);
@@ -264,7 +266,7 @@ static inline const struct cred *get_cred(const struct cred *cred)
  * @cred: The credentials to release
  *
  * Release a reference to a set of credentials, deleting them when the last ref
- * is released.
+ * is released.  If %NULL is passed, nothing is done.
  *
  * This takes a const pointer to a set of credentials because the credentials
  * on task_struct are attached by const pointers to prevent accidental
@@ -274,9 +276,11 @@ static inline void put_cred(const struct cred *_cred)
 {
 	struct cred *cred = (struct cred *) _cred;
 
-	validate_creds(cred);
-	if (atomic_dec_and_test(&(cred)->usage))
-		__put_cred(cred);
+	if (cred) {
+		validate_creds(cred);
+		if (atomic_dec_and_test(&(cred)->usage))
+			__put_cred(cred);
+	}
 }
 
 /**