This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

video: fbdev: au1200fb: Release some resources if a memory allocation fails

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: video-fbdev-au1200fb-release-some-resources-if-a-memory-allocation-fails.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From foo@baz Mon Dec 18 14:47:43 CET 2017

From: Christophe JAILLET christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2017 18:09:28 +0100 Subject: video: fbdev: au1200fb: Release some resources if a memory allocation fails

From: Christophe JAILLET christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr

[ Upstream commit 451f130602619a17c8883dd0b71b11624faffd51 ]

We should go through the error handling code instead of returning -ENOMEM directly.

Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr Cc: Tejun Heo tj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz b.zolnierkie@samsung.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/video/fbdev/au1200fb.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/au1200fb.c +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/au1200fb.c @@ -1699,7 +1699,8 @@ static int au1200fb_drv_probe(struct pla if (!fbdev->fb_mem) { print_err("fail to allocate frambuffer (size: %dK))", fbdev->fb_len / 1024); - return -ENOMEM; + ret = -ENOMEM; + goto failed; }

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Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr are

queue-4.4/video-fbdev-au1200fb-release-some-resources-if-a-memory-allocation-fails.patch queue-4.4/video-fbdev-au1200fb-return-an-error-code-if-a-memory-allocation-fails.patch