From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:35952 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752833AbeDKS4y (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Apr 2018 14:56:54 -0400 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Dan Carpenter , Jens Axboe , Sasha Levin Subject: [PATCH 4.9 097/310] block: fix an error code in add_partition() Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 20:33:56 +0200 Message-Id: <20180411183626.402145388@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20180411183622.305902791@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20180411183622.305902791@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Dan Carpenter [ 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 Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- block/partition-generic.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/block/partition-generic.c +++ b/block/partition-generic.c @@ -321,8 +321,10 @@ 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; }