This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ser_gigaset: return -ENOMEM on error instead of success
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:
ser_gigaset-return-enomem-on-error-instead-of-success.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 foo@baz Thu Jan 12 21:36:14 CET 2017
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2016 14:22:03 +0300
Subject: ser_gigaset: return -ENOMEM on error instead of success
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 93a97c50cbf1c007caf12db5cc23e0d5b9c8473c ]
If we can't allocate the resources in gigaset_initdriver() then we
should return -ENOMEM instead of zero.
Fixes: 2869b23e4b95 ("[PATCH] drivers/isdn/gigaset: new M101 driver (v2)")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/isdn/gigaset/ser-gigaset.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/isdn/gigaset/ser-gigaset.c
+++ b/drivers/isdn/gigaset/ser-gigaset.c
@@ -762,8 +762,10 @@ static int __init ser_gigaset_init(void)
driver = gigaset_initdriver(GIGASET_MINOR, GIGASET_MINORS,
GIGASET_MODULENAME, GIGASET_DEVNAME,
&ops, THIS_MODULE);
- if (!driver)
+ if (!driver) {
+ rc = -ENOMEM;
goto error;
+ }
rc = tty_register_ldisc(N_GIGASET_M101, &gigaset_ldisc);
if (rc != 0) {
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/ser_gigaset-return-enomem-on-error-instead-of-success.patch
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