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Patch "nullb: fix error return code in null_init()" 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

nullb: fix error return code in null_init()

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:
nullb-fix-error-return-code-in-null_init.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 13:29:00 CET 2017

From: Wei Yongjun <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 12:11:46 +0000
Subject: nullb: fix error return code in null_init()

From: Wei Yongjun <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 30c516d750396c5f3ec9cb04c9e025c25e91495e ]

Fix to return error code -ENOMEM from the null_alloc_dev() error handling case instead of 0, as done elsewhere in this function.

Fixes 2984c8684f96 ("nullb: factor disk parameters")
---
 drivers/block/null_blk.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
drivers/block/null_blk.c +3 -1
@@ -1985,8 +1985,10 @@ static int __init null_init(void)
 
 	for (i = 0; i < nr_devices; i++) {
 		dev = null_alloc_dev();
-		if (!dev)
+		if (!dev) {
+			ret = -ENOMEM;
 			goto err_dev;
+		}
 		ret = null_add_dev(dev);
 		if (ret) {
 			null_free_dev(dev);

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

queue-4.14/nullb-fix-error-return-code-in-null_init.patch queue-4.14/mlxsw-spectrum-fix-error-return-code-in-mlxsw_sp_port_create.patch