[4.2.y-ckt stable] Patch "quota: Fix possible GPF due to uninitialised pointers" has been added to the 4.2.y-ckt tree

[Kamal Mostafa]

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

    quota: Fix possible GPF due to uninitialised pointers

to the linux-4.2.y-queue branch of the 4.2.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-4.2.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 4.2.8-ckt7.

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

For more information about the 4.2.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 82e58547908e61564531f123deb5e50283c63e47 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nikolay Borisov <kernel at kyup.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 10:54:57 +0100
Subject: quota: Fix possible GPF due to uninitialised pointers

commit ab73ef46398e2c0159f3a71de834586422d2a44a upstream.

When dqget() in __dquot_initialize() fails e.g. due to IO error,
__dquot_initialize() will pass an array of uninitialized pointers to
dqput_all() and thus can lead to deference of random data. Fix the
problem by properly initializing the array.

Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <kernel at kyup.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack at suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 fs/quota/dquot.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/quota/dquot.c b/fs/quota/dquot.c
index 20d1f74..19c777a 100644
--- a/fs/quota/dquot.c
+++ b/fs/quota/dquot.c
@@ -1393,7 +1393,7 @@ static int dquot_active(const struct inode *inode)
 static void __dquot_initialize(struct inode *inode, int type)
 {
 	int cnt, init_needed = 0;
-	struct dquot **dquots, *got[MAXQUOTAS];
+	struct dquot **dquots, *got[MAXQUOTAS] = {};
 	struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb;
 	qsize_t rsv;

@@ -1408,7 +1408,6 @@ static void __dquot_initialize(struct inode *inode, int type)
 		kprojid_t projid;
 		int rc;

-		got[cnt] = NULL;
 		if (type != -1 && cnt != type)
 			continue;
 		/*
--
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