Patch "esp4: fix error return code in esp_output()" has been added to the 3.8-stable tree

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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
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