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: NGuoqing Jiang <gqjiang@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: NAditya Pakki <pakki001@umn.edu>
Signed-off-by: NSong Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>