[3.19.y-ckt stable] Patch "hpfs: kstrdup() out of memory handling" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    hpfs: kstrdup() out of memory handling

to the linux-3.19.y-queue branch of the 3.19.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.19.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.19.8-ckt5.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.19.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From b4790b5d5c987d26fba013553cfc64b7bfcb014d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sanidhya Kashyap <sanidhya.gatech at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 12:57:50 -0400
Subject: hpfs: kstrdup() out of memory handling

commit ce657611baf902f14ae559ce4e0787ead6712067 upstream.

There is a possibility of nothing being allocated to the new_opts in
case of memory pressure, therefore return ENOMEM for such case.

Signed-off-by: Sanidhya Kashyap <sanidhya.gatech at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mikulas at twibright.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 fs/hpfs/super.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/hpfs/super.c b/fs/hpfs/super.c
index 7cd00d3..e12a06b 100644
--- a/fs/hpfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/hpfs/super.c
@@ -424,11 +424,14 @@ static int hpfs_remount_fs(struct super_block *s, int *flags, char *data)
 	int o;
 	struct hpfs_sb_info *sbi = hpfs_sb(s);
 	char *new_opts = kstrdup(data, GFP_KERNEL);
-
+
+	if (!new_opts)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
 	sync_filesystem(s);

 	*flags |= MS_NOATIME;
-
+
 	hpfs_lock(s);
 	uid = sbi->sb_uid; gid = sbi->sb_gid;
 	umask = 0777 & ~sbi->sb_mode;
--
1.9.1