2.6.36-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Jeff Layton <[email protected]>

commit 015f0212d51d85bd281a831639a769b4a1a3307a upstream.

nfs_get_lock_context can return NULL on an allocation failure.
Regression introduced by commit f11ac8db.

Reported-by: Steve Dickson <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 fs/nfs/pagelist.c |    8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/nfs/pagelist.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/pagelist.c
@@ -65,6 +65,13 @@ nfs_create_request(struct nfs_open_conte
        if (req == NULL)
                return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 
+       /* get lock context early so we can deal with alloc failures */
+       req->wb_lock_context = nfs_get_lock_context(ctx);
+       if (req->wb_lock_context == NULL) {
+               nfs_page_free(req);
+               return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+       }
+
        /* Initialize the request struct. Initially, we assume a
         * long write-back delay. This will be adjusted in
         * update_nfs_request below if the region is not locked. */
@@ -79,7 +86,6 @@ nfs_create_request(struct nfs_open_conte
        req->wb_pgbase  = offset;
        req->wb_bytes   = count;
        req->wb_context = get_nfs_open_context(ctx);
-       req->wb_lock_context = nfs_get_lock_context(ctx);
        kref_init(&req->wb_kref);
        return req;
 }


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