This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled scsi: snic: Return error code 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: scsi-snic-return-error-code-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 foo@baz Fri Aug 4 15:30:10 PDT 2017 From: Burak Ok <burak-kernel@xxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2016 14:45:53 +0100 Subject: scsi: snic: Return error code on memory allocation failure From: Burak Ok <burak-kernel@xxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 0371adcdaca92912baaa3256ed13e058a016e62d ] If a call to mempool_create_slab_pool() in snic_probe() returns NULL, return -ENOMEM to indicate failure. mempool_creat_slab_pool() only fails if it cannot allocate memory. https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=189061 Reported-by: bianpan2010@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Burak Ok <burak-kernel@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andreas Schaertl <andreas.schaertl@xxxxxx> Acked-by: Narsimhulu Musini <nmusini@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Ewan D. Milne <emilne@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/snic/snic_main.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/scsi/snic/snic_main.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/snic/snic_main.c @@ -591,6 +591,7 @@ snic_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const s if (!pool) { SNIC_HOST_ERR(shost, "dflt sgl pool creation failed\n"); + ret = -ENOMEM; goto err_free_res; } @@ -601,6 +602,7 @@ snic_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const s if (!pool) { SNIC_HOST_ERR(shost, "max sgl pool creation failed\n"); + ret = -ENOMEM; goto err_free_dflt_sgl_pool; } @@ -611,6 +613,7 @@ snic_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const s if (!pool) { SNIC_HOST_ERR(shost, "snic tmreq info pool creation failed.\n"); + ret = -ENOMEM; goto err_free_max_sgl_pool; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from burak-kernel@xxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/scsi-snic-return-error-code-on-memory-allocation-failure.patch