This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled dpaa2-eth: Fix passing zero to 'PTR_ERR' warning to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: dpaa2-eth-fix-passing-zero-to-ptr_err-warning.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Mon 10 Aug 2020 02:07:44 PM CEST From: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2020 21:26:43 +0800 Subject: dpaa2-eth: Fix passing zero to 'PTR_ERR' warning From: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 02afa9c66bb954c6959877c70d9e128dcf0adce7 ] Fix smatch warning: drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa2/dpaa2-eth.c:2419 alloc_channel() warn: passing zero to 'ERR_PTR' setup_dpcon() should return ERR_PTR(err) instead of zero in error handling case. Fixes: d7f5a9d89a55 ("dpaa2-eth: defer probe on object allocate") Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa2/dpaa2-eth.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa2/dpaa2-eth.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa2/dpaa2-eth.c @@ -2090,7 +2090,7 @@ close: free: fsl_mc_object_free(dpcon); - return NULL; + return ERR_PTR(err); } static void free_dpcon(struct dpaa2_eth_priv *priv, @@ -2114,8 +2114,8 @@ alloc_channel(struct dpaa2_eth_priv *pri return NULL; channel->dpcon = setup_dpcon(priv); - if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(channel->dpcon)) { - err = PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(channel->dpcon); + if (IS_ERR(channel->dpcon)) { + err = PTR_ERR(channel->dpcon); goto err_setup; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from yuehaibing@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.4/dpaa2-eth-fix-passing-zero-to-ptr_err-warning.patch queue-5.4/scripts-add-dummy-report-mode-to-add_namespace.cocci.patch queue-5.4/appletalk-fix-atalk_proc_init-return-path.patch