[PATCH 4.9 099/206] efi/efivar_ssdt_load: Dont return success on allocation failure

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4.9-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit a75dcb5848359f488c32c0aef8711d9bd37a77b8 upstream.

We should return -ENOMEM here, instead of success.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-efi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 475fb4e8b2f4 ("efi / ACPI: load SSTDs from EFI variables")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161018143318.15673-9-matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
@@ -259,8 +259,10 @@ static __init int efivar_ssdt_load(void)
 		}
 
 		data = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
-		if (!data)
+		if (!data) {
+			ret = -ENOMEM;
 			goto free_entry;
+		}
 
 		ret = efivar_entry_get(entry, NULL, &size, data);
 		if (ret) {


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