linux-kernel - Re: [ 068/108] HID: hidraw: add proper error handling to raw event reporting

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Date:	Wed, 10 Oct 2012 03:25:53 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@...onical.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>, Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [ 068/108] HID: hidraw: add proper error handling to raw event
 reporting

On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 16:34 -0300, Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 07, 2012 at 11:59:42PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > 3.2-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > 
> > ------------------
> > 
> > From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
> > 
> > commit b6787242f32700377d3da3b8d788ab3928bab849 upstream.
> > 
> > If kmemdup() in hidraw_report_event() fails, we are not propagating
> > this fact properly.
> > 
> > Let hidraw_report_event() and hid_report_raw_event() return an error
> > value to the caller.
> 
> This needs in addition a small fix on top, commit d6d7c87
> ("HID: fix return value of hidraw_report_event() when !CONFIG_HIDRAW")

I've added that, thanks.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
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