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)));