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;
}
