linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 1/2] video/fbdev/stifb: Return -ENOMEM after a failed kzalloc() in stifb_init

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Date:   Sun, 7 Jan 2018 12:56:45 +0100
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>,
        Helge Deller <deller@....de>,
        "James E. J. Bottomley" <jejb@...isc-linux.org>,
        Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@...tec.de>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/2] video/fbdev/stifb: Return -ENOMEM after a failed
 kzalloc() in stifb_init_fb()

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2018 11:33:59 +0100

Replace an error code for the indication of a memory allocation failure
in this function.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2: Initial git repository build")
Suggested-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@...tec.de>
Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
---
 drivers/video/fbdev/stifb.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/stifb.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/stifb.c
index 6ded5c198998..511a594889af 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/stifb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/stifb.c
@@ -1128,7 +1128,7 @@ static int __init stifb_init_fb(struct sti_struct *sti, int bpp_pref)
 	fb = kzalloc(sizeof(*fb), GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (!fb) {
 		printk(KERN_ERR "stifb: Could not allocate stifb structure\n");
-		return -ENODEV;
+		return -ENOMEM;
 	}
 	
 	info = &fb->info;
-- 
2.15.1