[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "net/mlx4_core: Avoid returning success in case of an error flow" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

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

    net/mlx4_core: Avoid returning success in case of an error flow

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt22.

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

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 122061633428b0c68665f047eeb31d7566a2be81 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Noa Osherovich <noaos at mellanox.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 19:35:30 +0200
Subject: net/mlx4_core: Avoid returning success in case of an error flow

commit d49c2197fd70c37d57982804465268440a33183a upstream.

The err variable wasn't set with the correct error value in some cases.

Fixes: 47605df95398 ('mlx4: Modify proxy/tunnel QP mechanism [..]')
Signed-off-by: Noa Osherovich <noaos at mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz at mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
[ luis: backported to 3.16: adjusted context ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/main.c | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/main.c
index 3bdc11e44ec3..a0c2155c47e8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/main.c
@@ -682,9 +682,10 @@ static int mlx4_slave_cap(struct mlx4_dev *dev)
 		dev->caps.qp1_proxy[i - 1] = func_cap.qp1_proxy_qpn;
 		dev->caps.port_mask[i] = dev->caps.port_type[i];
 		dev->caps.phys_port_id[i] = func_cap.phys_port_id;
-		if (mlx4_get_slave_pkey_gid_tbl_len(dev, i,
-						    &dev->caps.gid_table_len[i],
-						    &dev->caps.pkey_table_len[i]))
+		err = mlx4_get_slave_pkey_gid_tbl_len(dev, i,
+						      &dev->caps.gid_table_len[i],
+						      &dev->caps.pkey_table_len[i]);
+		if (err)
 			goto err_mem;
 	}

@@ -694,6 +695,7 @@ static int mlx4_slave_cap(struct mlx4_dev *dev)
 		mlx4_err(dev, "HCA reported UAR region size of 0x%x bigger than PCI resource 2 size of 0x%llx, aborting\n",
 			 dev->caps.uar_page_size * dev->caps.num_uars,
 			 (unsigned long long) pci_resource_len(dev->pdev, 2));
+		err = -ENOMEM;
 		goto err_mem;
 	}