This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled um: Fix return value in ubd_init() to the 6.9-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: um-fix-return-value-in-ubd_init.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit d7bb0d1a7ccc2149a1bb8c9d4643629859f8cc65 Author: Duoming Zhou <duoming@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Mar 6 17:12:59 2024 +0800 um: Fix return value in ubd_init() [ Upstream commit 31a5990ed253a66712d7ddc29c92d297a991fdf2 ] When kmalloc_array() fails to allocate memory, the ubd_init() should return -ENOMEM instead of -1. So, fix it. Fixes: f88f0bdfc32f ("um: UBD Improvements") Signed-off-by: Duoming Zhou <duoming@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c b/arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c index 63fc062add708..ef805eaa9e013 100644 --- a/arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c +++ b/arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c @@ -1092,7 +1092,7 @@ static int __init ubd_init(void) if (irq_req_buffer == NULL) { printk(KERN_ERR "Failed to initialize ubd buffering\n"); - return -1; + return -ENOMEM; } io_req_buffer = kmalloc_array(UBD_REQ_BUFFER_SIZE, sizeof(struct io_thread_req *), @@ -1103,7 +1103,7 @@ static int __init ubd_init(void) if (io_req_buffer == NULL) { printk(KERN_ERR "Failed to initialize ubd buffering\n"); - return -1; + return -ENOMEM; } platform_driver_register(&ubd_driver); mutex_lock(&ubd_lock);