4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 8a545f185145e3c09348cd74326268ecfc6715a3 upstream. We can't pass error pointers to kfree() or it causes an oops. Fixes: 52b209f7b848 ('get rid of hostfs_read_inode()') Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c +++ b/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c @@ -959,10 +959,11 @@ static int hostfs_fill_sb_common(struct if (S_ISLNK(root_inode->i_mode)) { char *name = follow_link(host_root_path); - if (IS_ERR(name)) + if (IS_ERR(name)) { err = PTR_ERR(name); - else - err = read_name(root_inode, name); + goto out_put; + } + err = read_name(root_inode, name); kfree(name); if (err) goto out_put; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html