This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
pNFS/flexfiles: missing error code in ff_layout_alloc_lseg()
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: pnfs-flexfiles-missing-error-code-in-ff_layout_alloc_lseg.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From foo@baz Tue Apr 10 10:31:53 CEST 2018
From: Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com Date: Sat, 20 May 2017 00:31:12 +0300 Subject: pNFS/flexfiles: missing error code in ff_layout_alloc_lseg()
From: Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com
[ Upstream commit 662f9a105b4322b8559d448f86110e6ec24b8738 ]
If xdr_inline_decode() fails then we end up returning ERR_PTR(0). The caller treats NULL returns as -ENOMEM so it doesn't really hurt runtime, but obviously we intended to set an error code here.
Fixes: d67ae825a59d ("pnfs/flexfiles: Add the FlexFile Layout Driver") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust trond.myklebust@primarydata.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- fs/nfs/flexfilelayout/flexfilelayout.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/fs/nfs/flexfilelayout/flexfilelayout.c +++ b/fs/nfs/flexfilelayout/flexfilelayout.c @@ -461,6 +461,7 @@ ff_layout_alloc_lseg(struct pnfs_layout_ goto out_err_free;
/* fh */ + rc = -EIO; p = xdr_inline_decode(&stream, 4); if (!p) goto out_err_free;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.carpenter@oracle.com are
queue-4.4/block-fix-an-error-code-in-add_partition.patch queue-4.4/pnfs-flexfiles-missing-error-code-in-ff_layout_alloc_lseg.patch queue-4.4/drivers-misc-vmw_vmci-vmci_queue_pair.c-fix-a-couple-integer-overflow-tests.patch queue-4.4/md-cluster-fix-potential-lock-issue-in-add_new_disk.patch queue-4.4/ipmi_ssif-unlock-on-allocation-failure.patch queue-4.4/powercap-fix-an-error-code-in-powercap_register_zone.patch queue-4.4/libceph-null-deref-on-crush_decode-error-path.patch