This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ext4: return -ENOMEM instead of success
to the 4.4-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:
ext4-return-enomem-instead-of-success.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 578620f451f836389424833f1454eeeb2ffc9e9f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2016 09:56:01 -0500
Subject: ext4: return -ENOMEM instead of success
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 578620f451f836389424833f1454eeeb2ffc9e9f upstream.
We should set the error code if kzalloc() fails.
Fixes: 67cf5b09a46f ("ext4: add the basic function for inline data support")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ext4/inline.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/fs/ext4/inline.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inline.c
@@ -336,8 +336,10 @@ static int ext4_update_inline_data(handl
len -= EXT4_MIN_INLINE_DATA_SIZE;
value = kzalloc(len, GFP_NOFS);
- if (!value)
+ if (!value) {
+ error = -ENOMEM;
goto out;
+ }
error = ext4_xattr_ibody_get(inode, i.name_index, i.name,
value, len);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/ext4-return-enomem-instead-of-success.patch
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