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Patch "video: fbdev: au1200fb: Release some resources 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: Release some resources 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-release-some-resources-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: Release some resources if a memory allocation fails

From: Christophe JAILLET <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 451f130602619a17c8883dd0b71b11624faffd51 ]

We should go through the error handling code instead of returning -ENOMEM directly.

---
 drivers/video/fbdev/au1200fb.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
drivers/video/fbdev/au1200fb.c +2 -1
@@ -1701,7 +1701,8 @@ static int au1200fb_drv_probe(struct pla
 		if (!fbdev->fb_mem) {
 			print_err("fail to allocate frambuffer (size: %dK))",
 				  fbdev->fb_len / 1024);
-			return -ENOMEM;
+			ret = -ENOMEM;
+			goto failed;
 		}
 
 		/*

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