This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled tracing: Missing error code in tracer_alloc_buffers() to the 4.12-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: tracing-missing-error-code-in-tracer_alloc_buffers.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.12 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 147d88e0b5eb90191bc5c12ca0a3c410b75a13d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2017 14:02:01 +0300 Subject: tracing: Missing error code in tracer_alloc_buffers() From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 147d88e0b5eb90191bc5c12ca0a3c410b75a13d2 upstream. If ring_buffer_alloc() or one of the next couple function calls fail then we should return -ENOMEM but the current code returns success. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170801110201.ajdkct7vwzixahvx@mwanda Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: b32614c03413 ('tracing/rb: Convert to hotplug state machine') Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/trace/trace.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c @@ -8110,6 +8110,7 @@ __init static int tracer_alloc_buffers(v if (ret < 0) goto out_free_cpumask; /* Used for event triggers */ + ret = -ENOMEM; temp_buffer = ring_buffer_alloc(PAGE_SIZE, RB_FL_OVERWRITE); if (!temp_buffer) goto out_rm_hp_state; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.12/tracing-missing-error-code-in-tracer_alloc_buffers.patch queue-4.12/mm-shmem-fix-handling-sys-kernel-mm-transparent_hugepage-shmem_enabled.patch