[4.2.y-ckt stable] Patch "cifs: fix erroneous return value" has been added to the 4.2.y-ckt tree

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    cifs: fix erroneous return value

to the linux-4.2.y-queue branch of the 4.2.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-4.2.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 4.2.8-ckt5.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 4.2.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 4eab8fb2908d961e918b278052bc7d61a8e1e56a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anton Protopopov <a.s.protopopov at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 12:50:21 -0500
Subject: cifs: fix erroneous return value

commit 4b550af519854421dfec9f7732cdddeb057134b2 upstream.

The setup_ntlmv2_rsp() function may return positive value ENOMEM instead
of -ENOMEM in case of kmalloc failure.

Signed-off-by: Anton Protopopov <a.s.protopopov at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <smfrench at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 fs/cifs/cifsencrypt.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifsencrypt.c b/fs/cifs/cifsencrypt.c
index afa09fc..e682b36 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifsencrypt.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifsencrypt.c
@@ -714,7 +714,7 @@ setup_ntlmv2_rsp(struct cifs_ses *ses, const struct nls_table *nls_cp)

 	ses->auth_key.response = kmalloc(baselen + tilen, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!ses->auth_key.response) {
-		rc = ENOMEM;
+		rc = -ENOMEM;
 		ses->auth_key.len = 0;
 		goto setup_ntlmv2_rsp_ret;
 	}
--
2.7.0