From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: nfsd: more vfs_getxattr
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 22:21:43 -0800
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Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
>
> looks like I missed NFSv4 previously.

When sending fixes for earlier patches, it greatly helps if you can
identify which patch it is that needs fixing.  Usually it's obvious, but in
this case it's not.

> +	*buf = kmalloc(buflen, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (!buf)
> +		return -ENOMEM;

That's obviously broken.