This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled fs/ntfs3: Add check for kmemdup to the 6.3-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: fs-ntfs3-add-check-for-kmemdup.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.3 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 397d219d275e7b302a50dcf06faa672c19c25ed4 Author: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Nov 23 16:48:46 2022 +0800 fs/ntfs3: Add check for kmemdup [ Upstream commit e6c3cef24cb0d045f99d5cb039b344874e3cfd74 ] Since the kmemdup may return NULL pointer, it should be better to add check for the return value in order to avoid NULL pointer dereference. Fixes: b46acd6a6a62 ("fs/ntfs3: Add NTFS journal") Signed-off-by: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Konstantin Komarov <almaz.alexandrovich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/ntfs3/fslog.c b/fs/ntfs3/fslog.c index c6eb371a36951..dc723f03d6bb2 100644 --- a/fs/ntfs3/fslog.c +++ b/fs/ntfs3/fslog.c @@ -4256,6 +4256,10 @@ int log_replay(struct ntfs_inode *ni, bool *initialized) rec_len -= t32; attr_names = kmemdup(Add2Ptr(lrh, t32), rec_len, GFP_NOFS); + if (!attr_names) { + err = -ENOMEM; + goto out; + } lcb_put(lcb); lcb = NULL;