Patch "video: fbdev: au1200fb: Return an error code if a memory allocation fails" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree
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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
video: fbdev: au1200fb: Return an error code if a memory allocation fails
to the 4.14-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-return-an-error-code-if-a-memory-allocation-fails.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 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 foo@baz Mon Dec 18 13:28:59 CET 2017
From: Christophe JAILLET <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2017 18:09:28 +0100
Subject: video: fbdev: au1200fb: Return an error code if a memory allocation fails
From: Christophe JAILLET <[email protected]>
[ Upstream commit 8cae353e6b01ac3f18097f631cdbceb5ff28c7f3 ]
'ret' is known to be 0 at this point.
In case of memory allocation error in 'framebuffer_alloc()', return -ENOMEM instead.
--- drivers/video/fbdev/au1200fb.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
drivers/video/fbdev/au1200fb.c +3 -1
@@ -1681,8 +1681,10 @@ static int au1200fb_drv_probe(struct pla fbi =framebuffer_alloc (sizeof (struct au1200fb_device ), &dev->dev); -if (!fbi) +if (!fbi) { + ret = -ENOMEM ; goto failed; + } _au1200fb_infos[plane] = fbi; fbdev = fbi->par;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-4.14/video-fbdev-au1200fb-release-some-resources-if-a-memory-allocation-fails.patch queue-4.14/video-fbdev-au1200fb-return-an-error-code-if-a-memory-allocation-fails.patch queue-4.14/btrfs-tests-fix-a-memory-leak-in-error-handling-path-in-run_test.patch