Patch "scsi: snic: Return error code on memory allocation failure" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

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

scsi: snic: Return error code on memory allocation failure

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:
scsi-snic-return-error-code-on-memory-allocation-failure.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 <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Burak Ok <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2016 14:45:53 +0100
Subject: scsi: snic: Return error code on memory allocation failure

From: Burak Ok <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 0371adcdaca92912baaa3256ed13e058a016e62d ]

If a call to mempool_create_slab_pool() in snic_probe() returns NULL, return -ENOMEM to indicate failure. mempool_creat_slab_pool() only fails if it cannot allocate memory.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=189061

---
 drivers/scsi/snic/snic_main.c |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

@@ -591,6 +591,7 @@ snic_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const s
 	if (!pool) {
 		SNIC_HOST_ERR(shost, "dflt sgl pool creation failed\n");
 
+		ret = -ENOMEM;
 		goto err_free_res;
 	}
 

@@ -601,6 +602,7 @@ snic_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const s
 	if (!pool) {
 		SNIC_HOST_ERR(shost, "max sgl pool creation failed\n");
 
+		ret = -ENOMEM;
 		goto err_free_dflt_sgl_pool;
 	}
 

@@ -611,6 +613,7 @@ snic_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const s
 	if (!pool) {
 		SNIC_HOST_ERR(shost, "snic tmreq info pool creation failed.\n");
 
+		ret = -ENOMEM;
 		goto err_free_max_sgl_pool;
 	}
 

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

queue-4.9/scsi-snic-return-error-code-on-memory-allocation-failure.patch