This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
scsi: mvumi: Fix error return in mvumi_io_attach()
to the 5.8-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:
scsi-mvumi-fix-error-return-in-mvumi_io_attach.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 112e90ae804fe9b60ed205b2f660c6decae322ea
Author: Jing Xiangfeng <jingxiangfeng@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Sep 10 20:38:48 2020 +0800
scsi: mvumi: Fix error return in mvumi_io_attach()
[ Upstream commit 055f15ab2cb4a5cbc4c0a775ef3d0066e0fa9b34 ]
Return PTR_ERR() from the error handling case instead of 0.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200910123848.93649-1-jingxiangfeng@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Jing Xiangfeng <jingxiangfeng@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/mvumi.c b/drivers/scsi/mvumi.c
index 8906aceda4c43..0354898d7cac1 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/mvumi.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/mvumi.c
@@ -2425,6 +2425,7 @@ static int mvumi_io_attach(struct mvumi_hba *mhba)
if (IS_ERR(mhba->dm_thread)) {
dev_err(&mhba->pdev->dev,
"failed to create device scan thread\n");
+ ret = PTR_ERR(mhba->dm_thread);
mutex_unlock(&mhba->sas_discovery_mutex);
goto fail_create_thread;
}
