FAILED: patch "[PATCH] virtio_console: reset on out of memory" failed to apply to 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 4.9-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

>From 5c60300d68da32ca77f7f978039dc72bfc78b06b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 21:00:13 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] virtio_console: reset on out of memory

When out of memory and we can't add ctrl vq buffers,
probe fails. Unfortunately the error handling is
out of spec: it calls del_vqs without bothering
to reset the device first.

To fix, call the full cleanup function in this case.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>

diff --git a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
index e8480fe2e1d8..21085515814f 100644
--- a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
+++ b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
@@ -2090,6 +2090,7 @@ static int virtcons_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
 
 	spin_lock_init(&portdev->ports_lock);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&portdev->ports);
+	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&portdev->list);
 
 	virtio_device_ready(portdev->vdev);
 
@@ -2107,8 +2108,15 @@ static int virtcons_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
 		if (!nr_added_bufs) {
 			dev_err(&vdev->dev,
 				"Error allocating buffers for control queue\n");
-			err = -ENOMEM;
-			goto free_vqs;
+			/*
+			 * The host might want to notify mgmt sw about device
+			 * add failure.
+			 */
+			__send_control_msg(portdev, VIRTIO_CONSOLE_BAD_ID,
+					   VIRTIO_CONSOLE_DEVICE_READY, 0);
+			/* Device was functional: we need full cleanup. */
+			virtcons_remove(vdev);
+			return -ENOMEM;
 		}
 	} else {
 		/*
@@ -2139,11 +2147,6 @@ static int virtcons_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
 
 	return 0;
 
-free_vqs:
-	/* The host might want to notify mgmt sw about device add failure */
-	__send_control_msg(portdev, VIRTIO_CONSOLE_BAD_ID,
-			   VIRTIO_CONSOLE_DEVICE_READY, 0);
-	remove_vqs(portdev);
 free_chrdev:
 	unregister_chrdev(portdev->chr_major, "virtio-portsdev");
 free: