Patch "mnt: Fix the error check in __detach_mounts" has been added to the 4.0-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    mnt: Fix the error check in __detach_mounts

to the 4.0-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:
     mnt-fix-the-error-check-in-__detach_mounts.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.0 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 f53e57975151f54ad8caa1b0ac8a78091cd5700a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 11:48:45 -0600
Subject: mnt: Fix the error check in __detach_mounts

From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

commit f53e57975151f54ad8caa1b0ac8a78091cd5700a upstream.

lookup_mountpoint can return either NULL or an error value.
Update the test in __detach_mounts to test for an error value
to avoid pathological cases causing a NULL pointer dereferences.

The callers of __detach_mounts should prevent it from ever being
called on an unlinked dentry but don't take any chances.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/namespace.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/namespace.c
+++ b/fs/namespace.c
@@ -1518,7 +1518,7 @@ void __detach_mounts(struct dentry *dent
 
 	namespace_lock();
 	mp = lookup_mountpoint(dentry);
-	if (!mp)
+	if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(mp))
 		goto out_unlock;
 
 	lock_mount_hash();


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ebiederm@xmission.com are

queue-4.0/mnt-don-t-propagate-umounts-in-__detach_mounts.patch
queue-4.0/mnt-add-mnt_umount-flag.patch
queue-4.0/mnt-honor-mnt_locked-when-detaching-mounts.patch
queue-4.0/mnt-delay-removal-from-the-mount-hash.patch
queue-4.0/mnt-on-an-unmount-propagate-clearing-of-mnt_locked.patch
queue-4.0/mnt-don-t-propagate-unmounts-to-locked-mounts.patch
queue-4.0/mnt-factor-out-unhash_mnt-from-detach_mnt-and-umount_tree.patch
queue-4.0/mnt-factor-umount_mnt-from-umount_tree.patch
queue-4.0/mnt-fix-the-error-check-in-__detach_mounts.patch
queue-4.0/mnt-update-detach_mounts-to-leave-mounts-connected.patch
queue-4.0/mnt-improve-the-umount_tree-flags.patch
queue-4.0/mnt-in-umount_tree-reuse-mnt_list-instead-of-mnt_hash.patch