This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled CIFS: Possible null ptr deref in SMB2_tcon 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: cifs-possible-null-ptr-deref-in-smb2_tcon.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 18f39e7be0121317550d03e267e3ebd4dbfbb3ce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 00:22:24 -0500 Subject: CIFS: Possible null ptr deref in SMB2_tcon From: Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx> commit 18f39e7be0121317550d03e267e3ebd4dbfbb3ce upstream. As Raphael Geissert pointed out, tcon_error_exit can dereference tcon and there is one path in which tcon can be null. Signed-off-by: Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Raphael Geissert <geissert@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c +++ b/fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c @@ -809,7 +809,8 @@ tcon_exit: tcon_error_exit: if (rsp->hdr.Status == STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME) { cifs_dbg(VFS, "BAD_NETWORK_NAME: %s\n", tree); - tcon->bad_network_name = true; + if (tcon) + tcon->bad_network_name = true; } goto tcon_exit; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from smfrench@xxxxxxxxx are queue-3.10/cifs-fix-wrong-restart-readdir-for-smb1.patch queue-3.10/cifs-fix-async-reading-on-reconnects.patch queue-3.10/cifs-fix-wrong-directory-attributes-after-rename.patch queue-3.10/cifs-fix-wrong-filename-length-for-smb2.patch queue-3.10/cifs-fix-status_cannot_delete-error-mapping-for-smb2.patch queue-3.10/cifs-possible-null-ptr-deref-in-smb2_tcon.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