4.2-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 9dd6a06430c94299651d74b9ed5ca8396ab8ff1f upstream. We don't catch this allocation failure because there is a typo and we check the wrong variable. Fixes: 14b50f80c32d ('Drivers: hv: util: introduce hv_utils_transport abstraction') Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/hv/hv_utils_transport.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/hv/hv_utils_transport.c +++ b/drivers/hv/hv_utils_transport.c @@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ int hvutil_transport_send(struct hvutil_ return -EINVAL; } else if (hvt->mode == HVUTIL_TRANSPORT_NETLINK) { cn_msg = kzalloc(sizeof(*cn_msg) + len, GFP_ATOMIC); - if (!msg) + if (!cn_msg) return -ENOMEM; cn_msg->id.idx = hvt->cn_id.idx; cn_msg->id.val = hvt->cn_id.val; -- 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