[ 3.8.y.z extended stable ] Patch "ifb: fix oops when loading the ifb failed" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

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

    ifb: fix oops when loading the ifb failed

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.6.

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

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From ef7338eac150d141eb2d95e6a2a117fb5a3d66b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: dingtianhong <dingtianhong at huawei.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 19:04:06 +0800
Subject: ifb: fix oops when loading the ifb failed

[ Upstream commit f2966cd5691058b8674a20766525bedeaea9cbcf ]

If __rtnl_link_register() return faild when loading the ifb, it will
take the wrong path and get oops, so fix it just like dummy.

Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong at huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/ifb.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ifb.c b/drivers/net/ifb.c
index 04ab337..635d01c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ifb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ifb.c
@@ -290,6 +290,8 @@ static int __init ifb_init_module(void)

 	rtnl_lock();
 	err = __rtnl_link_register(&ifb_link_ops);
+	if (err < 0)
+		goto out;

 	for (i = 0; i < numifbs && !err; i++) {
 		err = ifb_init_one(i);
@@ -297,6 +299,8 @@ static int __init ifb_init_module(void)
 	}
 	if (err)
 		__rtnl_link_unregister(&ifb_link_ops);
+
+out:
 	rtnl_unlock();

 	return err;
--
1.8.1.2