This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
video: fbdev: au1200fb: Release some resources if a memory allocation fails
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:
video-fbdev-au1200fb-release-some-resources-if-a-memory-allocation-fails.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 13:28:59 CET 2017
From: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2017 18:09:28 +0100
Subject: video: fbdev: au1200fb: Release some resources if a memory allocation fails
From: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 451f130602619a17c8883dd0b71b11624faffd51 ]
We should go through the error handling code instead of returning -ENOMEM
directly.
Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/video/fbdev/au1200fb.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/au1200fb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/au1200fb.c
@@ -1701,7 +1701,8 @@ static int au1200fb_drv_probe(struct pla
if (!fbdev->fb_mem) {
print_err("fail to allocate frambuffer (size: %dK))",
fbdev->fb_len / 1024);
- return -ENOMEM;
+ ret = -ENOMEM;
+ goto failed;
}
/*
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.14/video-fbdev-au1200fb-release-some-resources-if-a-memory-allocation-fails.patch
queue-4.14/video-fbdev-au1200fb-return-an-error-code-if-a-memory-allocation-fails.patch
queue-4.14/btrfs-tests-fix-a-memory-leak-in-error-handling-path-in-run_test.patch