This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
soundwire: intel: fix NULL/ERR_PTR confusion
to the 5.9-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:
soundwire-intel-fix-null-err_ptr-confusion.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit f27486227d7cc1d16b3677158de06c409a1a4bd5
Author: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Sep 4 04:47:37 2020 +0800
soundwire: intel: fix NULL/ERR_PTR confusion
[ Upstream commit 06dcb4e443643db93b286f861133785ca46f5a19 ]
snd_soc_dai_get_sdw_stream() can only return the pointer to stream or
an ERR_PTR value, NULL is not a possible value.
Fixes: 09553140c8d7b ('soundwire: intel: implement get_sdw_stream() operations')
Reported-by: Bard Liao <yung-chuan.liao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Rander Wang <rander.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Bard Liao <yung-chuan.liao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200903204739.31206-3-yung-chuan.liao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Vinod Koul <vkoul@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/soundwire/intel.c b/drivers/soundwire/intel.c
index a283670659a92..10ff166977f8f 100644
--- a/drivers/soundwire/intel.c
+++ b/drivers/soundwire/intel.c
@@ -1011,7 +1011,7 @@ static void *intel_get_sdw_stream(struct snd_soc_dai *dai,
dma = dai->capture_dma_data;
if (!dma)
- return NULL;
+ return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
return dma->stream;
}
