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

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Message-ID: <20121008193409.GC3004@herton-Z68MA-D2H-B3>
Date:	Mon, 8 Oct 2012 16:34:10 -0300
From:	Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@...onical.com>
To:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
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 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")

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