This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
NFS: Fix use after free in write error path
to the 4.11-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:
nfs-fix-use-after-free-in-write-error-path.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.11 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 1f84ccdf37d0db3a70714d02d51b0b6d45887fb8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fred Isaman <fred.isaman@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2017 14:24:28 -0400
Subject: NFS: Fix use after free in write error path
From: Fred Isaman <fred.isaman@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 1f84ccdf37d0db3a70714d02d51b0b6d45887fb8 upstream.
Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <fred.isaman@xxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 0bcbf039f6b2b ("nfs: handle request add failure properly")
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/nfs/write.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/fs/nfs/write.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/write.c
@@ -548,9 +548,9 @@ static void nfs_write_error_remove_page(
{
nfs_unlock_request(req);
nfs_end_page_writeback(req);
- nfs_release_request(req);
generic_error_remove_page(page_file_mapping(req->wb_page),
req->wb_page);
+ nfs_release_request(req);
}
/*
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from fred.isaman@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.11/nfs-fix-use-after-free-in-write-error-path.patch