Patch "cifs: fix erroneous return value" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

Patch "cifs: fix erroneous return value" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    cifs: fix erroneous return value

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     cifs-fix-erroneous-return-value.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 4b550af519854421dfec9f7732cdddeb057134b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anton Protopopov <a.s.protopopov@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 12:50:21 -0500
Subject: cifs: fix erroneous return value

From: Anton Protopopov <a.s.protopopov@gmail.com>

commit 4b550af519854421dfec9f7732cdddeb057134b2 upstream.

The setup_ntlmv2_rsp() function may return positive value ENOMEM instead
of -ENOMEM in case of kmalloc failure.

Signed-off-by: Anton Protopopov <a.s.protopopov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/cifs/cifsencrypt.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/cifs/cifsencrypt.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifsencrypt.c
@@ -714,7 +714,7 @@ setup_ntlmv2_rsp(struct cifs_ses *ses, c
 
 	ses->auth_key.response = kmalloc(baselen + tilen, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!ses->auth_key.response) {
-		rc = ENOMEM;
+		rc = -ENOMEM;
 		ses->auth_key.len = 0;
 		goto setup_ntlmv2_rsp_ret;
 	}


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from a.s.protopopov@gmail.com are

queue-4.4/cifs-fix-erroneous-return-value.patch