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

nullb: fix error return code in null_init()

to the 4.14-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: nullb-fix-error-return-code-in-null_init.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 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 13:29:00 CET 2017

From: Wei Yongjun weiyongjun1@huawei.com Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 12:11:46 +0000 Subject: nullb: fix error return code in null_init()

From: Wei Yongjun weiyongjun1@huawei.com

[ Upstream commit 30c516d750396c5f3ec9cb04c9e025c25e91495e ]

Fix to return error code -ENOMEM from the null_alloc_dev() error handling case instead of 0, as done elsewhere in this function.

Fixes: 2984c8684f96 ("nullb: factor disk parameters") Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun weiyongjun1@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe axboe@kernel.dk Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/block/null_blk.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/block/null_blk.c +++ b/drivers/block/null_blk.c @@ -1985,8 +1985,10 @@ static int __init null_init(void)

for (i = 0; i < nr_devices; i++) { dev = null_alloc_dev(); - if (!dev) + if (!dev) { + ret = -ENOMEM; goto err_dev; + } ret = null_add_dev(dev); if (ret) { null_free_dev(dev);

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from weiyongjun1@huawei.com are

queue-4.14/nullb-fix-error-return-code-in-null_init.patch queue-4.14/mlxsw-spectrum-fix-error-return-code-in-mlxsw_sp_port_create.patch