This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ext4: return -ENOMEM instead of success to the 4.9-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-4.9 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-4.9/ext4-return-enomem-instead-of-success.patch -- 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