4.12-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>

commit 147d88e0b5eb90191bc5c12ca0a3c410b75a13d2 upstream.

If ring_buffer_alloc() or one of the next couple function calls fail
then we should return -ENOMEM but the current code returns success.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170801110201.ajdkct7vwzixahvx@mwanda

Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Fixes: b32614c03413 ('tracing/rb: Convert to hotplug state machine')
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 kernel/trace/trace.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -8110,6 +8110,7 @@ __init static int tracer_alloc_buffers(v
        if (ret < 0)
                goto out_free_cpumask;
        /* Used for event triggers */
+       ret = -ENOMEM;
        temp_buffer = ring_buffer_alloc(PAGE_SIZE, RB_FL_OVERWRITE);
        if (!temp_buffer)
                goto out_rm_hp_state;


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