In the (very unlikely) case of config->socks reallocation success and nsock allocation failure config->nsock will not get updated with the new pointer to socks array. Fix it by updating config->socks right after reallocation successfulness check. Fixes: 9561a7ade0c2 ("nbd: add multi-connection support") Signed-off-by: Eugene Syromiatnikov <esyr@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 4.10+ --- drivers/block/nbd.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/block/nbd.c b/drivers/block/nbd.c index a8e3815..a04c686 100644 --- a/drivers/block/nbd.c +++ b/drivers/block/nbd.c @@ -987,14 +987,14 @@ static int nbd_add_socket(struct nbd_device *nbd, unsigned long arg, sockfd_put(sock); return -ENOMEM; } + config->socks = socks; + nsock = kzalloc(sizeof(struct nbd_sock), GFP_KERNEL); if (!nsock) { sockfd_put(sock); return -ENOMEM; } - config->socks = socks; - nsock->fallback_index = -1; nsock->dead = false; mutex_init(&nsock->tx_lock); -- 2.1.4