From: <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr, alexander.levin@verizon.com,
b.zolnierkie@samsung.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
tj@kernel.org
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>, <stable-commits@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Patch "video: fbdev: au1200fb: Return an error code if a memory allocation fails" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 14:56:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1513605370202117@kroah.com> (raw)
This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
video: fbdev: au1200fb: Return an error code if a memory allocation fails
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:
video-fbdev-au1200fb-return-an-error-code-if-a-memory-allocation-fails.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 foo@baz Mon Dec 18 14:47:43 CET 2017
From: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2017 18:09:28 +0100
Subject: video: fbdev: au1200fb: Return an error code if a memory allocation fails
From: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
[ Upstream commit 8cae353e6b01ac3f18097f631cdbceb5ff28c7f3 ]
'ret' is known to be 0 at this point.
In case of memory allocation error in 'framebuffer_alloc()', return
-ENOMEM instead.
Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/video/fbdev/au1200fb.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/au1200fb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/au1200fb.c
@@ -1680,8 +1680,10 @@ static int au1200fb_drv_probe(struct pla
fbi = framebuffer_alloc(sizeof(struct au1200fb_device),
&dev->dev);
- if (!fbi)
+ if (!fbi) {
+ ret = -ENOMEM;
goto failed;
+ }
_au1200fb_infos[plane] = fbi;
fbdev = fbi->par;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr are
queue-4.4/video-fbdev-au1200fb-release-some-resources-if-a-memory-allocation-fails.patch
queue-4.4/video-fbdev-au1200fb-return-an-error-code-if-a-memory-allocation-fails.patch
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