The patch titled affs: handle match_strdup failure has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is affs-handle-match_strdup-failure.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: affs: handle match_strdup failure From: Jim Meyering <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx> fs/affs/super.c (parse_options): Remove useless initialization. Handle match_strdup failure. Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/affs/super.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN fs/affs/super.c~affs-handle-match_strdup-failure fs/affs/super.c --- a/fs/affs/super.c~affs-handle-match_strdup-failure +++ a/fs/affs/super.c @@ -199,7 +199,6 @@ parse_options(char *options, uid_t *uid, case Opt_prefix: /* Free any previous prefix */ kfree(*prefix); - *prefix = NULL; *prefix = match_strdup(&args[0]); if (!*prefix) return 0; @@ -233,6 +232,8 @@ parse_options(char *options, uid_t *uid, break; case Opt_volume: { char *vol = match_strdup(&args[0]); + if (!vol) + return 0; strlcpy(volume, vol, 32); kfree(vol); break; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx are usbaudio-handle-kcalloc-failure.patch 9p-handle-kstrdup-and-match_strdup-failure.patch alpha-handle-kcalloc-failure.patch affs-handle-match_strdup-failure.patch hfs-handle-match_strdup-failure.patch hfsplus-handle-match_strdup-failure.patch lib-inflatec-handle-failed-malloc.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html