This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
aio: checking for NULL instead of IS_ERR
to the 3.12-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:
aio-checking-for-null-instead-of-is_err.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.12 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 7f62656be8a8ef14c168db2d98021fb9c8cc1076 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 10:49:40 +0300
Subject: aio: checking for NULL instead of IS_ERR
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 7f62656be8a8ef14c168db2d98021fb9c8cc1076 upstream.
alloc_anon_inode() returns an ERR_PTR(), it doesn't return NULL.
Fixes: 71ad7490c1f3 ('rework aio migrate pages to use aio fs')
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/aio.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/aio.c
+++ b/fs/aio.c
@@ -164,8 +164,8 @@ static struct file *aio_private_file(str
struct file *file;
struct path path;
struct inode *inode = alloc_anon_inode(aio_mnt->mnt_sb);
- if (!inode)
- return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+ if (IS_ERR(inode))
+ return ERR_CAST(inode);
inode->i_mapping->a_ops = &aio_ctx_aops;
inode->i_mapping->private_data = ctx;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.12/aio-checking-for-null-instead-of-is_err.patch
queue-3.12/net-clamp-msg_namelen-instead-of-returning-an-error.patch
queue-3.12/net-mv643xx_eth-potential-null-dereference-in.patch
queue-3.12/isdnloop-use-strlcpy-instead-of-strcpy.patch
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html