This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
nfs: nfs4clinet: check the return value of kstrdup()
to the 5.16-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:
nfs-nfs4clinet-check-the-return-value-of-kstrdup.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.16 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 55a402874709d75f1e859f5294f8e45a7e1a686d
Author: Xiaoke Wang <xkernel.wang@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Dec 17 01:01:33 2021 +0800
nfs: nfs4clinet: check the return value of kstrdup()
[ Upstream commit fbd2057e5329d3502a27491190237b6be52a1cb6 ]
kstrdup() returns NULL when some internal memory errors happen, it is
better to check the return value of it so to catch the memory error in
time.
Signed-off-by: Xiaoke Wang <xkernel.wang@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs4client.c b/fs/nfs/nfs4client.c
index d8b5a250ca050..47a6cf892c95a 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/nfs4client.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4client.c
@@ -1343,8 +1343,11 @@ int nfs4_update_server(struct nfs_server *server, const char *hostname,
}
nfs_put_client(clp);
- if (server->nfs_client->cl_hostname == NULL)
+ if (server->nfs_client->cl_hostname == NULL) {
server->nfs_client->cl_hostname = kstrdup(hostname, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (server->nfs_client->cl_hostname == NULL)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ }
nfs_server_insert_lists(server);
return nfs_probe_server(server, NFS_FH(d_inode(server->super->s_root)));
