Patch "block: fix an error code in add_partition()" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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;a=summary

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