From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> The current error exit path when ofs fails to allocate jumps to clean-up code that calls ovl_free_fs resulting in a null pointer dereference on the null ovl pointer. Fix this by simply returning with the -ENOMEM status in err. Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1461284 ("Dereference after null check") Fixes: 4f3bf9de9eac ("ovl: factor out ovl_free_fs() helper") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/overlayfs/super.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/super.c b/fs/overlayfs/super.c index 708afec913ac..8258a194695b 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c @@ -1154,7 +1154,7 @@ static int ovl_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent) err = -ENOMEM; ofs = kzalloc(sizeof(struct ovl_fs), GFP_KERNEL); if (!ofs) - goto out_err; + return err; ofs->creator_cred = cred = prepare_creds(); if (!cred) -- 2.14.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-unionfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html