4.13-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Hirofumi Nakagawa <nklabs@xxxxxxxxx> commit b3885bd6edb41b91a0e3976469f72ae31bfb8d95 upstream. This was detected by fault injection test Signed-off-by: Hirofumi Nakagawa <nklabs@xxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 13cf199d0088 ("ovl: allocate an ovl_inode struct") Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/overlayfs/super.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c @@ -174,6 +174,9 @@ static struct inode *ovl_alloc_inode(str { struct ovl_inode *oi = kmem_cache_alloc(ovl_inode_cachep, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!oi) + return NULL; + oi->cache = NULL; oi->redirect = NULL; oi->version = 0;