From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764557AbXHVTMO (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:12:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751792AbXHVTLy (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:11:54 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:58315 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1763446AbXHVTLv (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:11:51 -0400 Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:59:41 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Eric Van Hensbergen Cc: Willy Tarreau , Mariusz Kozlowski , Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , stable@kernel.org Subject: Re: [stable] [2.6.20.17 review 32/58] fs: 9p/conv.c error path fix Message-ID: <20070822185941.GA6129@kroah.com> References: <20070822083844.%N@1wt.eu> <20070822084023.%N@1wt.eu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 10:53:02AM -0500, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: > On 8/22/07, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > When buf_check_overflow() returns != 0 we will hit kfree(ERR_PTR(err)) > > and it will not be happy about it. > > > > Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski > > Cc: Andrew Morton > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau > Acked-by: Eric Van Hensbergen > > This seems to be in the current code as well, I'll forward-port the patch... Huh? It's not already in mainline? Then how did it ever get into the stable queue? Ugh. greg k-h