This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled esp4: fix error return code in esp_output() to the 3.8-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: esp4-fix-error-return-code-in-esp_output.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.8 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 8fda48dd4d43ab3a90d29c43f4902d7225aacbae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2013 15:49:03 +0000 Subject: esp4: fix error return code in esp_output() From: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 06848c10f720cbc20e3b784c0df24930b7304b93 ] Fix to return a negative error code from the error handling case instead of 0, as returned elsewhere in this function. Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ipv4/esp4.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/net/ipv4/esp4.c +++ b/net/ipv4/esp4.c @@ -139,8 +139,6 @@ static int esp_output(struct xfrm_state /* skb is pure payload to encrypt */ - err = -ENOMEM; - esp = x->data; aead = esp->aead; alen = crypto_aead_authsize(aead); @@ -176,8 +174,10 @@ static int esp_output(struct xfrm_state } tmp = esp_alloc_tmp(aead, nfrags + sglists, seqhilen); - if (!tmp) + if (!tmp) { + err = -ENOMEM; goto error; + } seqhi = esp_tmp_seqhi(tmp); iv = esp_tmp_iv(aead, tmp, seqhilen); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from yongjun_wei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.8/esp4-fix-error-return-code-in-esp_output.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html