--- /dev/null
+From e406f12dde1a8375d77ea02d91f313fb1a9c6aec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@umn.edu>
+Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2019 16:48:54 -0600
+Subject: md: Fix failed allocation of md_register_thread
+
+From: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@umn.edu>
+
+commit e406f12dde1a8375d77ea02d91f313fb1a9c6aec upstream.
+
+mddev->sync_thread can be set to NULL on kzalloc failure downstream.
+The patch checks for such a scenario and frees allocated resources.
+
+Committer node:
+
+Added similar fix to raid5.c, as suggested by Guoqing.
+
+Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.16+
+Acked-by: Guoqing Jiang <gqjiang@suse.com>
+Signed-off-by: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@umn.edu>
+Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
+Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
+
+---
+ drivers/md/raid10.c | 2 ++
+ drivers/md/raid5.c | 2 ++
+ 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)
+
+--- a/drivers/md/raid10.c
++++ b/drivers/md/raid10.c
+@@ -3836,6 +3836,8 @@ static int run(struct mddev *mddev)
+ set_bit(MD_RECOVERY_RUNNING, &mddev->recovery);
+ mddev->sync_thread = md_register_thread(md_do_sync, mddev,
+ "reshape");
++ if (!mddev->sync_thread)
++ goto out_free_conf;
+ }
+
+ return 0;
+--- a/drivers/md/raid5.c
++++ b/drivers/md/raid5.c
+@@ -6171,6 +6171,8 @@ static int run(struct mddev *mddev)
+ set_bit(MD_RECOVERY_RUNNING, &mddev->recovery);
+ mddev->sync_thread = md_register_thread(md_do_sync, mddev,
+ "reshape");
++ if (!mddev->sync_thread)
++ goto abort;
+ }
+
+ /* Ok, everything is just fine now */