The patch below was submitted to be applied to the 6.0-stable tree.
I fail to see how this patch meets the stable kernel rules as found at
Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst.
I could be totally wrong, and if so, please respond to
<stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> and let me know why this patch should be
applied. Otherwise, it is now dropped from my patch queues, never to be
seen again.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
>From 180418e2eb33be5c8d0b703c843e0ebc045aef80 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hou Wenlong <houwenlong.hwl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2022 11:06:10 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: debugfs: Return retval of simple_attr_open() if it fails
Although simple_attr_open() fails only with -ENOMEM with current code
base, it would be nicer to return retval of simple_attr_open() directly
in kvm_debugfs_open().
No functional change intended.
Signed-off-by: Hou Wenlong <houwenlong.hwl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Message-Id: <69d64d93accd1f33691b8a383ae555baee80f943.1665975828.git.houwenlong.hwl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 1376a47fedee..f1df24c2bc84 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -5409,6 +5409,7 @@ static int kvm_debugfs_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file,
int (*get)(void *, u64 *), int (*set)(void *, u64),
const char *fmt)
{
+ int ret;
struct kvm_stat_data *stat_data = (struct kvm_stat_data *)
inode->i_private;
@@ -5420,15 +5421,13 @@ static int kvm_debugfs_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file,
if (!kvm_get_kvm_safe(stat_data->kvm))
return -ENOENT;
- if (simple_attr_open(inode, file, get,
- kvm_stats_debugfs_mode(stat_data->desc) & 0222
- ? set : NULL,
- fmt)) {
+ ret = simple_attr_open(inode, file, get,
+ kvm_stats_debugfs_mode(stat_data->desc) & 0222
+ ? set : NULL, fmt);
+ if (ret)
kvm_put_kvm(stat_data->kvm);
- return -ENOMEM;
- }
- return 0;
+ return ret;
}
static int kvm_debugfs_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
