This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled Julia Lawall reported this null pointer dereference, this should fix it. to the 6.1-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: julia-lawall-reported-this-null-pointer-dereference-.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit f32893dd0aa1cdec0c1e062f09561a4ebac522bc Author: Mike Marshall <hubcap@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Feb 14 15:57:53 2024 -0500 Julia Lawall reported this null pointer dereference, this should fix it. [ Upstream commit 9bf93dcfc453fae192fe5d7874b89699e8f800ac ] Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/orangefs/super.c b/fs/orangefs/super.c index 5254256a224d7..4ca8ed410c3cf 100644 --- a/fs/orangefs/super.c +++ b/fs/orangefs/super.c @@ -527,7 +527,7 @@ struct dentry *orangefs_mount(struct file_system_type *fst, sb->s_fs_info = kzalloc(sizeof(struct orangefs_sb_info_s), GFP_KERNEL); if (!ORANGEFS_SB(sb)) { d = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); - goto free_sb_and_op; + goto free_op; } ret = orangefs_fill_sb(sb,