Re: [ 068/108] HID: hidraw: add proper error handling to raw eventreporting

From: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
Date: Mon Oct 08 2012 - 15:34:10 EST


On Sun, Oct 07, 2012 at 11:59:42PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> 3.2-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
>
> ------------------
>
> From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx>
>
> commit b6787242f32700377d3da3b8d788ab3928bab849 upstream.
>
> If kmemdup() in hidraw_report_event() fails, we are not propagating
> this fact properly.
>
> Let hidraw_report_event() and hid_report_raw_event() return an error
> value to the caller.

This needs in addition a small fix on top, commit d6d7c87
("HID: fix return value of hidraw_report_event() when !CONFIG_HIDRAW")

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