From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 3.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. =============== 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: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- fs/nfs/nfs4filelayout.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs4filelayout.c b/fs/nfs/nfs4filelayout.c index 394b0a0c54bf..3c27659aba7b 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/nfs4filelayout.c +++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4filelayout.c @@ -1330,7 +1330,7 @@ filelayout_alloc_layout_hdr(struct inode *inode, gfp_t gfp_flags) struct nfs4_filelayout *flo; flo = kzalloc(sizeof(*flo), gfp_flags); - return &flo->generic_hdr; + return flo != NULL ? &flo->generic_hdr : NULL; } static void -- 2.0.0 -- 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