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 4.4-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: scsi-mvumi-fix-error-return-in-mvumi_io_attach.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit ad977537159bb5a047d78509481c27a6ac7bbb27 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 39285070f3b51..17ec51f9d9880 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/mvumi.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/mvumi.c @@ -2476,6 +2476,7 @@ 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; }