This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
nullb: fix error return code in null_init()
to the 4.14-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:
nullb-fix-error-return-code-in-null_init.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 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 Mon Dec 18 13:29:00 CET 2017
From: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 12:11:46 +0000
Subject: nullb: fix error return code in null_init()
From: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 30c516d750396c5f3ec9cb04c9e025c25e91495e ]
Fix to return error code -ENOMEM from the null_alloc_dev() error
handling case instead of 0, as done elsewhere in this function.
Fixes: 2984c8684f96 ("nullb: factor disk parameters")
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/block/null_blk.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/block/null_blk.c
+++ b/drivers/block/null_blk.c
@@ -1985,8 +1985,10 @@ static int __init null_init(void)
for (i = 0; i < nr_devices; i++) {
dev = null_alloc_dev();
- if (!dev)
+ if (!dev) {
+ ret = -ENOMEM;
goto err_dev;
+ }
ret = null_add_dev(dev);
if (ret) {
null_free_dev(dev);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from weiyongjun1@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.14/nullb-fix-error-return-code-in-null_init.patch
queue-4.14/mlxsw-spectrum-fix-error-return-code-in-mlxsw_sp_port_create.patch