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 4.4-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: block-fix-an-error-code-in-add_partition.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: 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 @@ -309,8 +309,10 @@ 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-4.4/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