From: Yanchuan Nian <ycnian@xxxxxxxxx> The new layout pointer in pnfs_find_alloc_layout() may be NULL because of out of memory. we must do some check work, otherwise pnfs_free_layout_hdr() will go wrong because it can not deal with a NULL pointer. Signed-off-by: Yanchuan Nian <ycnian@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfs/pnfs.c | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/nfs/pnfs.c b/fs/nfs/pnfs.c index fe624c9..2878f97 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/pnfs.c +++ b/fs/nfs/pnfs.c @@ -925,8 +925,8 @@ pnfs_find_alloc_layout(struct inode *ino, if (likely(nfsi->layout == NULL)) { /* Won the race? */ nfsi->layout = new; return new; - } - pnfs_free_layout_hdr(new); + } else if (new != NULL) + pnfs_free_layout_hdr(new); out_existing: pnfs_get_layout_hdr(nfsi->layout); return nfsi->layout; -- 1.7.4.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html