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 3.18-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-3.18 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 15:03:25 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 @@ -1699,7 +1699,8 @@ 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-3.18/video-fbdev-au1200fb-release-some-resources-if-a-memory-allocation-fails.patch queue-3.18/video-fbdev-au1200fb-return-an-error-code-if-a-memory-allocation-fails.patch