The patch titled
Subject: affs: kstrdup() memory handling
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
affs-kstrdup-memory-handling.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/affs-kstrdup-memory-handling.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/affs-kstrdup-memory-handling.patch
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From: Sanidhya Kashyap <sanidhya.gatech@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: affs: kstrdup() memory handling
There is a possibility of kstrdup() failure upon memory pressure.
Therefore, returning ENOMEM even for new_opts.
Signed-off-by: Sanidhya Kashyap <sanidhya.gatech@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Taesoo kim <taesoo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Fabian Frederick <fabf@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/affs/super.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff -puN fs/affs/super.c~affs-kstrdup-memory-handling fs/affs/super.c
--- a/fs/affs/super.c~affs-kstrdup-memory-handling
+++ a/fs/affs/super.c
@@ -525,6 +525,10 @@ affs_remount(struct super_block *sb, int
char volume[32];
char *prefix = NULL;
+
+ if (!new_opts)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
pr_debug("%s(flags=0x%x,opts=\"%s\")\n", __func__, *flags, data);
sync_filesystem(sb);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from sanidhya.gatech@xxxxxxxxx are
affs-kstrdup-memory-handling.patch
affs-kstrdup-memory-handling-fix.patch
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