Patch "kaweth: fix oops upon failed memory allocation" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

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

kaweth: fix oops upon failed memory allocation

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:
kaweth-fix-oops-upon-failed-memory-allocation.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.

From: Oliver Neukum <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 15:51:56 +0200
Subject: kaweth: fix oops upon failed memory allocation

From: Oliver Neukum <[email protected]>

commit 575ced7f8090c1a4e91e2daf8da9352a6a1fc7a7 upstream.

Just return an error upon failure.

---
 drivers/net/usb/kaweth.c |    7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -1009,6 +1009,7 @@ static int kaweth_probe(
 	struct net_device *netdev;
 	const eth_addr_t bcast_addr = { 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF };
 	int result = 0;
+	int rv = -EIO;
 
 	dev_dbg(dev,
 		"Kawasaki Device Probe (Device number:%d): 0x%4.4x:0x%4.4x:0x%4.4x\n",

@@ -1049,6 +1050,10 @@ static int kaweth_probe(
 		/* Download the firmware */
 		dev_info(dev, "Downloading firmware...\n");
 		kaweth->firmware_buf = (__u8 *)__get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL);
+		if (!kaweth->firmware_buf) {
+			rv = -ENOMEM;
+			goto err_free_netdev;
+		}
 		if ((result = kaweth_download_firmware(kaweth,
 						      "kaweth/new_code.bin",
 						      100,

@@ -1203,7 +1208,7 @@ err_only_tx:
 err_free_netdev:
 	free_netdev(netdev);
 
-	return -EIO;
+	return rv;
 }
 
 /****************************************************************

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

queue-4.4/kaweth-fix-oops-upon-failed-memory-allocation.patch queue-4.4/kaweth-fix-firmware-download.patch