The patch below does not apply to the 3.16-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
>From a9cfcd63e8d206ce4235c355d857c4fbdf0f4587 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2014 09:33:00 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] ext4: avoid trying to kfree an ERR_PTR pointer
Thanks to Dan Carpenter for extending smatch to find bugs like this.
(This was found using a development version of smatch.)
Fixes: 36de928641ee48b2078d3fe9514242aaa2f92013
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c
index 90a3cdca3f88..603e4ebbd0ac 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c
@@ -3240,6 +3240,7 @@ static int ext4_rename(struct inode *old_dir, struct dentry *old_dentry,
&new.de, &new.inlined);
if (IS_ERR(new.bh)) {
retval = PTR_ERR(new.bh);
+ new.bh = NULL;
goto end_rename;
}
if (new.bh) {
@@ -3386,6 +3387,7 @@ static int ext4_cross_rename(struct inode *old_dir, struct dentry *old_dentry,
&new.de, &new.inlined);
if (IS_ERR(new.bh)) {
retval = PTR_ERR(new.bh);
+ new.bh = NULL;
goto end_rename;
}
diff --git a/fs/ext4/resize.c b/fs/ext4/resize.c
index bb0e80f03e2e..1e43b905ff98 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/resize.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/resize.c
@@ -575,6 +575,7 @@ handle_bb:
bh = bclean(handle, sb, block);
if (IS_ERR(bh)) {
err = PTR_ERR(bh);
+ bh = NULL;
goto out;
}
overhead = ext4_group_overhead_blocks(sb, group);
@@ -603,6 +604,7 @@ handle_ib:
bh = bclean(handle, sb, block);
if (IS_ERR(bh)) {
err = PTR_ERR(bh);
+ bh = NULL;
goto out;
}
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