On Wed, May 03, 2023 at 02:06:09PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 3 May 2023 11:16:02 +0700 Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 07, 2023 at 07:44:33PM +0000, Danila Chernetsov wrote: > > > In ntfs_mft_data_extend_allocation_nolock(), if an error condition occurs > > > prior to 'ctx' being set to a non-NULL value, avoid dereferencing the NULL > > > 'ctx' pointer in error handling. > > > > > > Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE. > > > > Duplicate of 10-years-old outstanding patch at [1]. > > Well, the patches are actually quite different. Is Danila's longer one > better? > > > I'm not speaking of the patch itself but rather on unfortunate state > > of ntfs subsystem. It seems like the maintainer is MIA (has not > > responding to patch submissions for a long time). Some trivial > > patches, however, are merged through mm tree. > > > > Konstantin (from newer ntfs3 subsystem), Andrew, would you like to take a > > look on this orphaned subsystem (and help reviewing)? I'd like to send > > MAINTAINERS update if it turns out to be the case. > > > > Sure, I can join linux-ntfs-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and hendle things > which come along. > > Or Christian may want to do that? Thanks for asking. I would be able to pick up those patches into fs.misc. I got an off-list ping about someone also wanting to help with review apparently.
