# \[PATCH AUTOSEL 4.4 13/14\] net: Return the correct errno code

- From: Sasha Levin \<sashal@kernel.org\>
- Date: 2021-06-07 16:29:34 
- List: stable
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/stable/2021/06/1405331
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/stable/2021/06/1405344/t.md

```text
From: Zheng Yongjun <redacted>

[ Upstream commit 49251cd00228a3c983651f6bb2f33f6a0b8f152e ]

When kalloc or kmemdup failed, should return ENOMEM rather than ENOBUF.

Signed-off-by: Zheng Yongjun <redacted>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 net/compat.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/compat.c b/net/compat.c
index 20c5e5f215f2..14459a87fdbc 100644
--- a/net/compat.c
+++ b/net/compat.c
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ int cmsghdr_from_user_compat_to_kern(struct msghdr *kmsg, struct sock *sk,
 	if (kcmlen > stackbuf_size)
 		kcmsg_base = kcmsg = sock_kmalloc(sk, kcmlen, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (kcmsg == NULL)
-		return -ENOBUFS;
+		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	/* Now copy them over neatly. */
 	memset(kcmsg, 0, kcmlen);
-- 
2.30.2

```