linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.16 072/366] video/fbdev/stifb: Return -ENOMEM after a failed kzalloc() in stifb_init

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Date:   Sun, 14 Oct 2018 16:25:41 +0100
From:   Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        "Rolf Eike Beer" <eike-kernel@...tec.de>,
        "James E. J. Bottomley" <jejb@...isc-linux.org>,
        "Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz" <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>,
        "Markus Elfring" <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
        "Helge Deller" <deller@....de>
Subject: [PATCH 3.16 072/366] video/fbdev/stifb: Return -ENOMEM after a
 failed kzalloc() in stifb_init_fb()

3.16.60-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>

commit f9815f945aff2204b8afbbb9d2182024eb44a194 upstream.

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

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("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>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@....de>
Cc: "James E. J. Bottomley" <jejb@...isc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 drivers/video/fbdev/stifb.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/stifb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/stifb.c
@@ -1091,7 +1091,7 @@ static int __init stifb_init_fb(struct s
 	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;