From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> An error from kaiser_add_mapping() here is not at all likely, but Eric Biggers rightly points out that __free_ldt_struct() relies on new_ldt->size being initialized: move that up. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (cherry picked from commit 500943e57db8d3e298e98f595f835c5b613e843b) Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c index c388247e0353..5797d437710d 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c @@ -78,11 +78,11 @@ static struct ldt_struct *alloc_ldt_struct(int size) ret = kaiser_add_mapping((unsigned long)new_ldt->entries, alloc_size, __PAGE_KERNEL); + new_ldt->size = size; if (ret) { __free_ldt_struct(new_ldt); return NULL; } - new_ldt->size = size; return new_ldt; } -- 2.16.2