This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
scsi: ibmvfc: Fix error return in ibmvfc_probe()
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-ibmvfc-fix-error-return-in-ibmvfc_probe.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 463215e6664317a211d3124cf23603af8767585e
Author: Jing Xiangfeng <jingxiangfeng@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Sep 7 16:39:49 2020 +0800
scsi: ibmvfc: Fix error return in ibmvfc_probe()
[ Upstream commit 5e48a084f4e824e1b624d3fd7ddcf53d2ba69e53 ]
Fix to return error code PTR_ERR() from the error handling case instead of
0.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200907083949.154251-1-jingxiangfeng@xxxxxxxxxx
Acked-by: Tyrel Datwyler <tyreld@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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/ibmvscsi/ibmvfc.c b/drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvfc.c
index 635f6f9cffc40..ef91f3d01f989 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvfc.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvfc.c
@@ -4928,6 +4928,7 @@ static int ibmvfc_probe(struct vio_dev *vdev, const struct vio_device_id *id)
if (IS_ERR(vhost->work_thread)) {
dev_err(dev, "Couldn't create kernel thread: %ld\n",
PTR_ERR(vhost->work_thread));
+ rc = PTR_ERR(vhost->work_thread);
goto free_host_mem;
}
