From: Dan Carpenter If ring_buffer_alloc() or one of the next couple function calls fail then we should return -ENOMEM but the current code returns success. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170801110201.ajdkct7vwzixahvx@mwanda Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: b32614c03413 ('tracing/rb: Convert to hotplug state machine') Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) --- kernel/trace/trace.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c index 784fb43b2abe..d815fc317e9d 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c @@ -8293,6 +8293,7 @@ __init static int tracer_alloc_buffers(void) if (ret < 0) goto out_free_cpumask; /* Used for event triggers */ + ret = -ENOMEM; temp_buffer = ring_buffer_alloc(PAGE_SIZE, RB_FL_OVERWRITE); if (!temp_buffer) goto out_rm_hp_state; -- 2.13.2