This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled kernfs: deal with kernfs_fill_super() failures to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: kernfs-deal-with-kernfs_fill_super-failures.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 82382acec0c97b91830fff7130d0acce4ac4f3f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2018 00:22:29 -0400 Subject: kernfs: deal with kernfs_fill_super() failures From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 82382acec0c97b91830fff7130d0acce4ac4f3f3 upstream. make sure that info->node is initialized early, so that kernfs_kill_sb() can list_del() it safely. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/kernfs/mount.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/fs/kernfs/mount.c +++ b/fs/kernfs/mount.c @@ -320,6 +320,7 @@ struct dentry *kernfs_mount_ns(struct fi info->root = root; info->ns = ns; + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&info->node); sb = sget_userns(fs_type, kernfs_test_super, kernfs_set_super, flags, &init_user_ns, info); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.14/unfuck-sysfs_mount.patch queue-4.14/kernfs-deal-with-kernfs_fill_super-failures.patch