This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled CIFS: Fix some return values in case of error in 'crypt_message' 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: cifs-fix-some-return-values-in-case-of-error-in-crypt_message.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 517a6e43c4872c89794af5b377fa085e47345952 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christophe Jaillet <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2017 09:12:47 +0200 Subject: CIFS: Fix some return values in case of error in 'crypt_message' From: Christophe Jaillet <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 517a6e43c4872c89794af5b377fa085e47345952 upstream. 'rc' is known to be 0 at this point. So if 'init_sg' or 'kzalloc' fails, we should return -ENOMEM instead. Also remove a useless 'rc' in a debug message as it is meaningless here. Fixes: 026e93dc0a3ee ("CIFS: Encrypt SMB3 requests before sending") Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Pavel Shilovsky <pshilov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Aurelien Aptel <aaptel@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/cifs/smb2ops.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/cifs/smb2ops.c +++ b/fs/cifs/smb2ops.c @@ -1809,7 +1809,8 @@ crypt_message(struct TCP_Server_Info *se sg = init_sg(rqst, sign); if (!sg) { - cifs_dbg(VFS, "%s: Failed to init sg %d", __func__, rc); + cifs_dbg(VFS, "%s: Failed to init sg", __func__); + rc = -ENOMEM; goto free_req; } @@ -1817,6 +1818,7 @@ crypt_message(struct TCP_Server_Info *se iv = kzalloc(iv_len, GFP_KERNEL); if (!iv) { cifs_dbg(VFS, "%s: Failed to alloc IV", __func__); + rc = -ENOMEM; goto free_sg; } iv[0] = 3; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.11/cifs-fix-some-return-values-in-case-of-error-in-crypt_message.patch