This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled cifs: fix erroneous return value to the 4.4-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: cifs-fix-erroneous-return-value.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 4b550af519854421dfec9f7732cdddeb057134b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Anton Protopopov <a.s.protopopov@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 12:50:21 -0500 Subject: cifs: fix erroneous return value From: Anton Protopopov <a.s.protopopov@xxxxxxxxx> commit 4b550af519854421dfec9f7732cdddeb057134b2 upstream. The setup_ntlmv2_rsp() function may return positive value ENOMEM instead of -ENOMEM in case of kmalloc failure. Signed-off-by: Anton Protopopov <a.s.protopopov@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/cifs/cifsencrypt.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/cifs/cifsencrypt.c +++ b/fs/cifs/cifsencrypt.c @@ -714,7 +714,7 @@ setup_ntlmv2_rsp(struct cifs_ses *ses, c ses->auth_key.response = kmalloc(baselen + tilen, GFP_KERNEL); if (!ses->auth_key.response) { - rc = ENOMEM; + rc = -ENOMEM; ses->auth_key.len = 0; goto setup_ntlmv2_rsp_ret; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from a.s.protopopov@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/cifs-fix-erroneous-return-value.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