This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

block: fix an error code in add_partition()

to the 4.9-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: block-fix-an-error-code-in-add_partition.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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 Mon Apr 9 17:09:24 CEST 2018

From: Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 17:28:36 +0300 Subject: block: fix an error code in add_partition()

From: Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com

[ Upstream commit 7bd897cfce1eb373892d35d7f73201b0f9b221c4 ]

We don't set an error code on this path. It means that we return NULL instead of an error pointer and the caller does a NULL dereference.

Fixes: 6d1d8050b4bc ("block, partition: add partition_meta_info to hd_struct") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe axboe@fb.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- block/partition-generic.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/block/partition-generic.c +++ b/block/partition-generic.c @@ -321,8 +321,10 @@ struct hd_struct *add_partition(struct g

if (info) { struct partition_meta_info *pinfo = alloc_part_info(disk); - if (!pinfo) + if (!pinfo) { + err = -ENOMEM; goto out_free_stats; + } memcpy(pinfo, info, sizeof(*info)); p->info = pinfo; }

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.carpenter@oracle.com are

queue-4.9/block-fix-an-error-code-in-add_partition.patch queue-4.9/x.509-fix-error-code-in-x509_cert_parse.patch queue-4.9/rdma-iw_cxgb4-avoid-touch-after-free-error-in-arp-failure-handlers.patch queue-4.9/drm-amdkfd-null-dereference-involving-create_process.patch queue-4.9/pnfs-flexfiles-missing-error-code-in-ff_layout_alloc_lseg.patch queue-4.9/drivers-misc-vmw_vmci-vmci_queue_pair.c-fix-a-couple-integer-overflow-tests.patch queue-4.9/cxl-unlock-on-error-in-probe.patch queue-4.9/md-cluster-fix-potential-lock-issue-in-add_new_disk.patch queue-4.9/ipmi_ssif-unlock-on-allocation-failure.patch queue-4.9/powercap-fix-an-error-code-in-powercap_register_zone.patch queue-4.9/perf-core-fix-error-handling-in-perf_event_alloc.patch queue-4.9/libceph-null-deref-on-crush_decode-error-path.patch