The patch titled fs/sysv: dereferencing ERR_PTR() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is fs-sysv-dereferencing-err_ptr.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://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/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: fs/sysv: dereferencing ERR_PTR() From: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> Move the dir_put_page() inside the if condition so we don't dereference "page", if it's an ERR_PTR(). Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/sysv/dir.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN fs/sysv/dir.c~fs-sysv-dereferencing-err_ptr fs/sysv/dir.c --- a/fs/sysv/dir.c~fs-sysv-dereferencing-err_ptr +++ a/fs/sysv/dir.c @@ -164,8 +164,8 @@ struct sysv_dir_entry *sysv_find_entry(s name, de->name)) goto found; } + dir_put_page(page); } - dir_put_page(page); if (++n >= npages) n = 0; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from error27@xxxxxxxxx are origin.patch linux-next.patch ksm-check-for-err_ptr-from-follow_page.patch power_meter-acpi_device_class-power_meter_resource-too-long.patch sbshc-acpi_device_class-smbus_host_controller-too-long.patch acpi_pad-processor_aggregator-name-too-long.patch acpi_pad-processor_aggregator-name-too-long-fix.patch drivers-gpu-drm-via-via_videoc-fix-off-by-one-issue.patch drivers-gpu-drm-radeon-radeon_atombiosc-range-check-issues.patch drivers-gpu-drm-drm_sysfsc-sysfs-files-error-handling.patch drivers-gpu-drm-drm_memoryc-fix-check-for-end-of-loop.patch drivers-media-video-au0828-au0828-videoc-off-by-one-bug.patch drivers-media-video-zc0301-zc0301_corec-improve-error-handling.patch drivers-media-video-et61x251-et61x251_corec-improve-error-handling.patch drivers-media-video-sn9c102-sn9c102_corec-improve-error-handling.patch cx88-improve-error-handling.patch ir-keytable-avoid-double-lock.patch cx231xx-improve-error-handling.patch backlight-backlight_device_register-return-err_ptr.patch scsi-remove-superfluous-null-pointer-check-from-scsi_kill_request.patch drivers-staging-otus-hal-hpanic-using-the-wrong-variable.patch drivers-staging-comedi-drivers-dt2801c-off-by-one-issue.patch musb-potential-use-after-free.patch usb-oxu210hp-release-spinlock-on-error-path.patch mm-document-follow_page.patch dynamic_debug-small-cleanup-in-ddebug_proc_write.patch sis-strcpy-=-strlcpy.patch proc-cleanup-remove-unused-assignments.patch fs-sysv-dereferencing-err_ptr.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