From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751413AbdIIXgG (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Sep 2017 19:36:06 -0400 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:43076 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752891AbdIIXBB (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Sep 2017 19:01:01 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, "Jens Axboe" , "Dan Carpenter" Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2017 22:47:14 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: LinuxStableQueue (scripts by bwh) Subject: [PATCH 3.16 082/233] block: fix an error code in add_partition() In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2a02:8011:400e:2:6f00:88c8:c921:d332 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.16.48-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Dan Carpenter commit 7bd897cfce1eb373892d35d7f73201b0f9b221c4 upstream. 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 Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- 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; }