4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@xxxxxxxxx> commit 126c97f4d0d1b5b956e8b0740c81a2b2a2ae548c upstream. The kmalloc was not being checked - if it fails issue a warning and return -ENOMEM to the caller. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@xxxxxxxxx> Fixes: b8da344b74c8 ("cifs: dynamic allocation of ntlmssp blob") Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Pavel Shilovsky <pshilov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> cc: Stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>` Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/cifs/sess.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) --- a/fs/cifs/sess.c +++ b/fs/cifs/sess.c @@ -398,6 +398,12 @@ int build_ntlmssp_auth_blob(unsigned cha goto setup_ntlmv2_ret; } *pbuffer = kmalloc(size_of_ntlmssp_blob(ses), GFP_KERNEL); + if (!*pbuffer) { + rc = -ENOMEM; + cifs_dbg(VFS, "Error %d during NTLMSSP allocation\n", rc); + *buflen = 0; + goto setup_ntlmv2_ret; + } sec_blob = (AUTHENTICATE_MESSAGE *)*pbuffer; memcpy(sec_blob->Signature, NTLMSSP_SIGNATURE, 8);