This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
IB/hfi1: Return an error on memory allocation failure
to the 4.9-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:
ib-hfi1-return-an-error-on-memory-allocation-failure.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 94679061dcdddbafcf24e3bfb526e54dedcc2f2f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Michael J. Ruhl" <michael.j.ruhl@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 05:14:28 -0700
Subject: IB/hfi1: Return an error on memory allocation failure
From: Michael J. Ruhl <michael.j.ruhl@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 94679061dcdddbafcf24e3bfb526e54dedcc2f2f upstream.
If the eager buffer allocation fails, it is necessary to return
an error code.
Reviewed-by: Mike Marciniszyn <mike.marciniszyn@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Michael J. Ruhl <michael.j.ruhl@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/init.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/init.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/init.c
@@ -1757,6 +1757,7 @@ int hfi1_setup_eagerbufs(struct hfi1_ctx
!HFI1_CAP_KGET_MASK(rcd->flags, MULTI_PKT_EGR)) {
dd_dev_err(dd, "ctxt%u: Failed to allocate eager buffers\n",
rcd->ctxt);
+ ret = -ENOMEM;
goto bail_rcvegrbuf_phys;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from michael.j.ruhl@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/ib-hfi1-return-an-error-on-memory-allocation-failure.patch
queue-4.9/ib-hfi1-fix-a-subcontext-memory-leak.patch