This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ext4: add missing error check in __ext4_new_inode()
to the 4.14-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-add-missing-error-check-in-__ext4_new_inode.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 996fc4477a0ea28226b30d175f053fb6f9a4fa36 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2017 23:44:11 -0500
Subject: ext4: add missing error check in __ext4_new_inode()
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
commit 996fc4477a0ea28226b30d175f053fb6f9a4fa36 upstream.
It's possible for ext4_get_acl() to return an ERR_PTR. So we need to
add a check for this case in __ext4_new_inode(). Otherwise on an
error we can end up oops the kernel.
This was getting triggered by xfstests generic/388, which is a test
which exercises the shutdown code path.
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ext4/ialloc.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
@@ -816,6 +816,8 @@ struct inode *__ext4_new_inode(handle_t
#ifdef CONFIG_EXT4_FS_POSIX_ACL
struct posix_acl *p = get_acl(dir, ACL_TYPE_DEFAULT);
+ if (IS_ERR(p))
+ return ERR_CAST(p);
if (p) {
int acl_size = p->a_count * sizeof(ext4_acl_entry);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tytso@xxxxxxx are
queue-4.14/ext4-add-missing-error-check-in-__ext4_new_inode.patch
queue-4.14/ext4-fix-fdatasync-2-after-fallocate-2-operation.patch
queue-4.14/ext4-support-fast-symlinks-from-ext3-file-systems.patch