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 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: drm-vmwgfx-handle-vmalloc-failure-in-vmw_local_fifo_reserve.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 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 @@ -368,6 +368,8 @@ static void *vmw_local_fifo_reserve(stru 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-4.4/drm-vmwgfx-handle-vmalloc-failure-in-vmw_local_fifo_reserve.patch