[4.2.y-ckt stable] Patch "Drivers: hv: util: catch allocation errors" 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

    Drivers: hv: util: catch allocation errors

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-ckt3.

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 6a83e052337b0172059d9430c128de4d09d2aaa0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Olaf Hering <olaf at aepfle.de>
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 16:01:36 -0800
Subject: Drivers: hv: util: catch allocation errors

commit cdc0c0c94e4e6dfa371d497a3130f83349b6ead6 upstream.

Catch allocation errors in hvutil_transport_send.

Fixes: 14b50f80c32d ('Drivers: hv: util: introduce hv_utils_transport abstraction')

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf at aepfle.de>
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys at microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/hv/hv_utils_transport.c | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hv/hv_utils_transport.c b/drivers/hv/hv_utils_transport.c
index 6a9d80a..1505ee6 100644
--- a/drivers/hv/hv_utils_transport.c
+++ b/drivers/hv/hv_utils_transport.c
@@ -204,9 +204,12 @@ int hvutil_transport_send(struct hvutil_transport *hvt, void *msg, int len)
 		goto out_unlock;
 	}
 	hvt->outmsg = kzalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
-	memcpy(hvt->outmsg, msg, len);
-	hvt->outmsg_len = len;
-	wake_up_interruptible(&hvt->outmsg_q);
+	if (hvt->outmsg) {
+		memcpy(hvt->outmsg, msg, len);
+		hvt->outmsg_len = len;
+		wake_up_interruptible(&hvt->outmsg_q);
+	} else
+		ret = -ENOMEM;
 out_unlock:
 	mutex_unlock(&hvt->outmsg_lock);
 	return ret;
--
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