Patch "libnvdimm, btt: check memory allocation failure" has been added to the 4.13-stable tree
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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
libnvdimm, btt: check memory allocation failure
to the 4.13-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:
libnvdimm-btt-check-memory-allocation-failure.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.13 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.
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ed36b4dba54a421ce5551638f6a9790b2c2116b1Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christophe Jaillet <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 08:30:34 +0200
Subject: libnvdimm, btt: check memory allocation failure
From: Christophe Jaillet <[email protected]>
commit ed36b4dba54a421ce5551638f6a9790b2c2116b1 upstream.
Check memory allocation failures and return -ENOMEM in such cases, as already done few lines below for another memory allocation.
This avoids NULL pointers dereference.
--- drivers/nvdimm/btt.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
drivers/nvdimm/btt.c +2 -0
@@ -1429,6 +1429,8 @@ int nvdimm_namespace_attach_btt(struct n } btt_sb =devm_kzalloc (&nd_btt->dev,sizeof (*btt_sb),GFP_KERNEL ); +if (!btt_sb) +return -ENOMEM ;/* * If this returns < 0, that is ok as it just means there wasn't
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-4.13/libnvdimm-btt-check-memory-allocation-failure.patch