This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
drm/vmwgfx: Handle vmalloc() failure in vmw_local_fifo_reserve()
to the 3.18-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:
drm-vmwgfx-handle-vmalloc-failure-in-vmw_local_fifo_reserve.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From f0c62e9878024300319ba2438adc7b06c6b9c448 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 12:12:08 +0300
Subject: drm/vmwgfx: Handle vmalloc() failure in vmw_local_fifo_reserve()
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit f0c62e9878024300319ba2438adc7b06c6b9c448 upstream.
If vmalloc() fails then we need to a bit of cleanup before returning.
Fixes: fb1d9738ca05 ("drm/vmwgfx: Add DRM driver for VMware Virtual GPU")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Sinclair Yeh <syeh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_fifo.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_fifo.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_fifo.c
@@ -384,6 +384,8 @@ void *vmw_fifo_reserve(struct vmw_privat
return fifo_state->static_buffer;
else {
fifo_state->dynamic_buffer = vmalloc(bytes);
+ if (!fifo_state->dynamic_buffer)
+ goto out_err;
return fifo_state->dynamic_buffer;
}
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.18/drm-vmwgfx-handle-vmalloc-failure-in-vmw_local_fifo_reserve.patch