Patch "ser_gigaset: return -ENOMEM on error instead of success" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

Patch "ser_gigaset: return -ENOMEM on error instead of success" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[gregkh]

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

    ser_gigaset: return -ENOMEM on error instead of success

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:
     ser_gigaset-return-enomem-on-error-instead-of-success.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 <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Thu Jan 12 21:36:14 CET 2017
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2016 14:22:03 +0300
Subject: ser_gigaset: return -ENOMEM on error instead of success

From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>


[ Upstream commit 93a97c50cbf1c007caf12db5cc23e0d5b9c8473c ]

If we can't allocate the resources in gigaset_initdriver() then we
should return -ENOMEM instead of zero.

Fixes: 2869b23e4b95 ("[PATCH] drivers/isdn/gigaset: new M101 driver (v2)")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/isdn/gigaset/ser-gigaset.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/isdn/gigaset/ser-gigaset.c
+++ b/drivers/isdn/gigaset/ser-gigaset.c
@@ -762,8 +762,10 @@ static int __init ser_gigaset_init(void)
 	driver = gigaset_initdriver(GIGASET_MINOR, GIGASET_MINORS,
 				    GIGASET_MODULENAME, GIGASET_DEVNAME,
 				    &ops, THIS_MODULE);
-	if (!driver)
+	if (!driver) {
+		rc = -ENOMEM;
 		goto error;
+	}
 
 	rc = tty_register_ldisc(N_GIGASET_M101, &gigaset_ldisc);
 	if (rc != 0) {


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.carpenter@oracle.com are

queue-4.4/ser_gigaset-return-enomem-on-error-instead-of-success.patch