This was detected by fault injection test Signed-off-by: Hirofumi Nakagawa <nklabs@gmail.com> Fixes: 13cf199d0088 ("ovl: allocate an ovl_inode struct") Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.13
@@ -174,6 +174,9 @@ static struct inode *ovl_alloc_inode(struct super_block *sb)
{
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;