Patch "video: fbdev: au1200fb: Return an error code if a memory allocation fails" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    video: fbdev: au1200fb: Return an error code if a memory allocation fails

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:
     video-fbdev-au1200fb-return-an-error-code-if-a-memory-allocation-fails.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 Mon Dec 18 14:12:34 CET 2017
From: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2017 18:09:28 +0100
Subject: video: fbdev: au1200fb: Return an error code if a memory allocation fails

From: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>


[ Upstream commit 8cae353e6b01ac3f18097f631cdbceb5ff28c7f3 ]

'ret' is known to be 0 at this point.
In case of memory allocation error in 'framebuffer_alloc()', return
-ENOMEM instead.

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 |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/au1200fb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/au1200fb.c
@@ -1681,8 +1681,10 @@ static int au1200fb_drv_probe(struct pla
 
 		fbi = framebuffer_alloc(sizeof(struct au1200fb_device),
 					&dev->dev);
-		if (!fbi)
+		if (!fbi) {
+			ret = -ENOMEM;
 			goto failed;
+		}
 
 		_au1200fb_infos[plane] = fbi;
 		fbdev = fbi->par;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx are

queue-4.9/video-fbdev-au1200fb-release-some-resources-if-a-memory-allocation-fails.patch
queue-4.9/video-fbdev-au1200fb-return-an-error-code-if-a-memory-allocation-fails.patch
queue-4.9/btrfs-tests-fix-a-memory-leak-in-error-handling-path-in-run_test.patch



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