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 <[email protected]>.
thanks, greg k-h ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------ >From a9cfcd63e8d206ce4235c355d857c4fbdf0f4587 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Theodore Ts'o <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected] Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] 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; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
