This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
um: line: always fill *error_out in setup_one_line()
to the 5.4-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-line-always-fill-error_out-in-setup_one_line.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit f268c811dfde3ad206d8b7fecdd8db141f0d2d83
Author: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Jul 3 17:22:36 2024 +0200
um: line: always fill *error_out in setup_one_line()
[ Upstream commit 824ac4a5edd3f7494ab1996826c4f47f8ef0f63d ]
The pointer isn't initialized by callers, but I have
encountered cases where it's still printed; initialize
it in all possible cases in setup_one_line().
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240703172235.ad863568b55f.Iaa1eba4db8265d7715ba71d5f6bb8c7ff63d27e9@changeid
Acked-By: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/arch/um/drivers/line.c b/arch/um/drivers/line.c
index d6a78c3548a5..de0ab2e455b0 100644
--- a/arch/um/drivers/line.c
+++ b/arch/um/drivers/line.c
@@ -383,6 +383,7 @@ int setup_one_line(struct line *lines, int n, char *init,
parse_chan_pair(NULL, line, n, opts, error_out);
err = 0;
}
+ *error_out = "configured as 'none'";
} else {
char *new = kstrdup(init, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!new) {
@@ -406,6 +407,7 @@ int setup_one_line(struct line *lines, int n, char *init,
}
}
if (err) {
+ *error_out = "failed to parse channel pair";
line->init_str = NULL;
line->valid = 0;
kfree(new);
