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Patch "cifs: fix erroneous return value" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

PATCH [email protected] 1 participant 1 message Feb 24, 2016 Stable branch

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

cifs: fix erroneous return value

to the 4.4-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:
cifs-fix-erroneous-return-value.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

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From 4b550af519854421dfec9f7732cdddeb057134b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Anton Protopopov <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 12:50:21 -0500
Subject: cifs: fix erroneous return value

From: Anton Protopopov <[email protected]>

commit 4b550af519854421dfec9f7732cdddeb057134b2 upstream.

The setup_ntlmv2_rsp() function may return positive value ENOMEM instead of -ENOMEM in case of kmalloc failure.

---
 fs/cifs/cifsencrypt.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
fs/cifs/cifsencrypt.c +1 -1
@@ -714,7 +714,7 @@ setup_ntlmv2_rsp(struct cifs_ses *ses, c
 
 	ses->auth_key.response = kmalloc(baselen + tilen, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!ses->auth_key.response) {
-		rc = ENOMEM;
+		rc = -ENOMEM;
 		ses->auth_key.len = 0;
 		goto setup_ntlmv2_rsp_ret;
 	}

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/cifs-fix-erroneous-return-value.patch