Patch "adm80211: return an error if adm8211_alloc_rings() fails" 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

adm80211: return an error if adm8211_alloc_rings() 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:

     adm80211-return-an-error-if-adm8211_alloc_rings-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 <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2016 14:21:22 +0300
Subject: adm80211: return an error if adm8211_alloc_rings() fails

From: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit c705a6b3aa7804d7bc6660183f51e510c61dc807 ]

We accidentally return success when adm8211_alloc_rings() fails but we should preserve the error code.

---
 drivers/net/wireless/admtek/adm8211.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -1843,7 +1843,8 @@ static int adm8211_probe(struct pci_dev
 	priv->rx_ring_size = rx_ring_size;
 	priv->tx_ring_size = tx_ring_size;
 
-	if (adm8211_alloc_rings(dev)) {
+	err = adm8211_alloc_rings(dev);
+	if (err) {
 		printk(KERN_ERR "%s (adm8211): Cannot allocate TX/RX ring\n",
 		       pci_name(pdev));
 		goto err_iounmap;

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

queue-4.9/ecryptfs-use-after-free-in-ecryptfs_release_messaging.patch queue-4.9/adm80211-return-an-error-if-adm8211_alloc_rings-fails.patch queue-4.9/nfc-fix-device-allocation-error-return.patch