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

adm80211: return an error if adm8211_alloc_rings() fails

to the 4.9-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: adm80211-return-an-error-if-adm8211_alloc_rings-fails.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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 Tue Nov 28 10:49:28 CET 2017

From: Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2016 14:21:22 +0300 Subject: adm80211: return an error if adm8211_alloc_rings() fails

From: Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com

[ Upstream commit c705a6b3aa7804d7bc6660183f51e510c61dc807 ]

We accidentally return success when adm8211_alloc_rings() fails but we should preserve the error code.

Fixes: cc0b88cf5ecf ("[PATCH] Add adm8211 802.11b wireless driver") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo kvalo@codeaurora.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/net/wireless/admtek/adm8211.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/net/wireless/admtek/adm8211.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/admtek/adm8211.c @@ -1843,7 +1843,8 @@ static int adm8211_probe(struct pci_dev priv->rx_ring_size = rx_ring_size; priv->tx_ring_size = tx_ring_size;

- if (adm8211_alloc_rings(dev)) { + err = adm8211_alloc_rings(dev); + if (err) { printk(KERN_ERR "%s (adm8211): Cannot allocate TX/RX ring\n", pci_name(pdev)); goto err_iounmap;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.carpenter@oracle.com are

queue-4.9/ecryptfs-use-after-free-in-ecryptfs_release_messaging.patch queue-4.9/adm80211-return-an-error-if-adm8211_alloc_rings-fails.patch queue-4.9/nfc-fix-device-allocation-error-return.patch