This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
pNFS: Handle allocation errors correctly in filelayout_alloc_layout_hdr()
to the 3.14-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:
pnfs-handle-allocation-errors-correctly-in-filelayout_alloc_layout_hdr.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 6df200f5d5191bdde4d2e408215383890f956781 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 20:06:55 -0400
Subject: pNFS: Handle allocation errors correctly in filelayout_alloc_layout_hdr()
From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 6df200f5d5191bdde4d2e408215383890f956781 upstream.
Return the NULL pointer when the allocation fails.
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/nfs/nfs4filelayout.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/fs/nfs/nfs4filelayout.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4filelayout.c
@@ -1330,7 +1330,7 @@ filelayout_alloc_layout_hdr(struct inode
struct nfs4_filelayout *flo;
flo = kzalloc(sizeof(*flo), gfp_flags);
- return &flo->generic_hdr;
+ return flo != NULL ? &flo->generic_hdr : NULL;
}
static void
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.14/nfs-fix-cache_validity-check-in-nfs_write_pageuptodate.patch
queue-3.14/nfs-populate-net-in-mount-data-when-remounting.patch
queue-3.14/pnfs-handle-allocation-errors-correctly-in-filelayout_alloc_layout_hdr.patch
queue-3.14/nfs-use-raw_write_seqcount_begin-end-int-nfs4_reclaim_open_state.patch
queue-3.14/sunrpc-fix-a-module-reference-leak-in-svc_handle_xprt.patch
queue-3.14/nfs-don-t-declare-inode-uptodate-unless-all-attributes-were-checked.patch
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