linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.13 16/43] ovl: add NULL check in ovl_alloc

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Date:   Tue, 31 Oct 2017 10:55:36 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Hirofumi Nakagawa <nklabs@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.13 16/43] ovl: add NULL check in ovl_alloc_inode

4.13-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Hirofumi Nakagawa <nklabs@...il.com>

commit b3885bd6edb41b91a0e3976469f72ae31bfb8d95 upstream.

This was detected by fault injection test

Signed-off-by: Hirofumi Nakagawa <nklabs@...il.com>
Fixes: 13cf199d0088 ("ovl: allocate an ovl_inode struct")
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/overlayfs/super.c |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
@@ -174,6 +174,9 @@ static struct inode *ovl_alloc_inode(str
 {
 	struct ovl_inode *oi = kmem_cache_alloc(ovl_inode_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
 
+	if (!oi)
+		return NULL;
+
 	oi->cache = NULL;
 	oi->redirect = NULL;
 	oi->version = 0;