This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled tty: ipwireless: fix error handling to the 5.8-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: tty-ipwireless-fix-error-handling.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.8 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit c6b5a87abca8d1828ee119ad714855a5cba88809 Author: Tong Zhang <ztong0001@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Aug 21 12:19:40 2020 -0400 tty: ipwireless: fix error handling [ Upstream commit db332356222d9429731ab9395c89cca403828460 ] ipwireless_send_packet() can only return 0 on success and -ENOMEM on error, the caller should check non zero for error condition Signed-off-by: Tong Zhang <ztong0001@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200821161942.36589-1-ztong0001@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/tty/ipwireless/network.c b/drivers/tty/ipwireless/network.c index cf20616340a1a..fe569f6294a24 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/ipwireless/network.c +++ b/drivers/tty/ipwireless/network.c @@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ static int ipwireless_ppp_start_xmit(struct ppp_channel *ppp_channel, skb->len, notify_packet_sent, network); - if (ret == -1) { + if (ret < 0) { skb_pull(skb, 2); return 0; } @@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ static int ipwireless_ppp_start_xmit(struct ppp_channel *ppp_channel, notify_packet_sent, network); kfree(buf); - if (ret == -1) + if (ret < 0) return 0; } kfree_skb(skb); diff --git a/drivers/tty/ipwireless/tty.c b/drivers/tty/ipwireless/tty.c index fad3401e604d9..23584769fc292 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/ipwireless/tty.c +++ b/drivers/tty/ipwireless/tty.c @@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ static int ipw_write(struct tty_struct *linux_tty, ret = ipwireless_send_packet(tty->hardware, IPW_CHANNEL_RAS, buf, count, ipw_write_packet_sent_callback, tty); - if (ret == -1) { + if (ret < 0) { mutex_unlock(&tty->ipw_tty_mutex); return 0; }