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Patch "igb: check memory allocation failure" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

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

igb: check memory allocation failure

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:
igb-check-memory-allocation-failure.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 foo@baz Thu Dec 21 10:35:49 CET 2017

From: Christophe JAILLET <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 08:39:51 +0200
Subject: igb: check memory allocation failure

From: Christophe JAILLET <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 18eb86362a52f0af933cc0fd5e37027317eb2d1c ]

Check memory allocation failures and return -ENOMEM in such cases, as already done for other memory allocations in this function.

This avoids NULL pointers dereference.

---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c +2 -0
@@ -3005,6 +3005,8 @@ static int igb_sw_init(struct igb_adapte
 	/* Setup and initialize a copy of the hw vlan table array */
 	adapter->shadow_vfta = kcalloc(E1000_VLAN_FILTER_TBL_SIZE, sizeof(u32),
 				       GFP_ATOMIC);
+	if (!adapter->shadow_vfta)
+		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	/* This call may decrease the number of queues */
 	if (igb_init_interrupt_scheme(adapter, true)) {

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

queue-4.4/igb-check-memory-allocation-failure.patch