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 <[email protected]> know about it.
>From ce657611baf902f14ae559ce4e0787ead6712067 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sanidhya Kashyap <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 12:57:50 -0400
Subject: hpfs: kstrdup() out of memory handling
From: Sanidhya Kashyap <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
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 [email protected]
are
queue-4.1/hpfs-kstrdup-out-of-memory-handling.patch
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