This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled libceph: potential NULL dereference in ceph_osdc_handle_map() to the 3.10-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: libceph-potential-null-dereference-in-ceph_osdc_handle_map.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From b72e19b9225d4297a18715b0998093d843d170fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 08:52:48 +0300 Subject: libceph: potential NULL dereference in ceph_osdc_handle_map() From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> commit b72e19b9225d4297a18715b0998093d843d170fa upstream. There are two places where we read "nr_maps" if both of them are set to zero then we would hit a NULL dereference here. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Sage Weil <sage@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ceph/osd_client.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/net/ceph/osd_client.c +++ b/net/ceph/osd_client.c @@ -1786,6 +1786,8 @@ void ceph_osdc_handle_map(struct ceph_os nr_maps--; } + if (!osdc->osdmap) + goto bad; done: downgrade_write(&osdc->map_sem); ceph_monc_got_osdmap(&osdc->client->monc, osdc->osdmap->epoch); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.10/libceph-fix-error-handling-in-handle_reply.patch queue-3.10/libceph-potential-null-dereference-in-ceph_osdc_handle_map.patch queue-3.10/libceph-create_singlethread_workqueue-doesn-t-return-err_ptrs.patch queue-3.10/ceph-cleanup-types-in-striped_read.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