This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled hpfs: kstrdup() out of memory handling to the 4.1-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: hpfs-kstrdup-out-of-memory-handling.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From ce657611baf902f14ae559ce4e0787ead6712067 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sanidhya Kashyap <sanidhya.gatech@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 12:57:50 -0400 Subject: hpfs: kstrdup() out of memory handling From: Sanidhya Kashyap <sanidhya.gatech@xxxxxxxxx> commit ce657611baf902f14ae559ce4e0787ead6712067 upstream. There is a possibility of nothing being allocated to the new_opts in case of memory pressure, therefore return ENOMEM for such case. Signed-off-by: Sanidhya Kashyap <sanidhya.gatech@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/hpfs/super.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/hpfs/super.c +++ b/fs/hpfs/super.c @@ -424,11 +424,14 @@ static int hpfs_remount_fs(struct super_ int o; struct hpfs_sb_info *sbi = hpfs_sb(s); char *new_opts = kstrdup(data, GFP_KERNEL); - + + if (!new_opts) + return -ENOMEM; + sync_filesystem(s); *flags |= MS_NOATIME; - + hpfs_lock(s); uid = sbi->sb_uid; gid = sbi->sb_gid; umask = 0777 & ~sbi->sb_mode; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from sanidhya.gatech@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.1/hpfs-kstrdup-out-of-memory-handling.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