This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ARM: cpuidle: Fix error return code to the 4.8-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: arm-cpuidle-fix-error-return-code.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From af48d7bc3756a0cd882d65bff14ab39746ba57fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christophe Jaillet <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 15:02:30 +0200 Subject: ARM: cpuidle: Fix error return code From: Christophe Jaillet <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> commit af48d7bc3756a0cd882d65bff14ab39746ba57fe upstream. We know that 'ret = 0' because it has been tested a few lines above. So, if 'kzalloc' fails, 0 will be returned instead of an error code. Return -ENOMEM instead. Fixes: a0d46a3dfdc3 ("ARM: cpuidle: Register per cpuidle device") Signed-off-by: Christophe Jaillet <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-arm.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-arm.c +++ b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-arm.c @@ -121,6 +121,7 @@ static int __init arm_idle_init(void) dev = kzalloc(sizeof(*dev), GFP_KERNEL); if (!dev) { pr_err("Failed to allocate cpuidle device\n"); + ret = -ENOMEM; goto out_fail; } dev->cpu = cpu; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.8/arm-cpuidle-fix-error-return-code.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