This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled HID: alps: fix error return code in alps_input_configured() to the 4.9-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: hid-alps-fix-error-return-code-in-alps_input_configu.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit cb90d1585d00d3d7fc318bdbcde77cc1e83e2bb8 Author: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Mar 4 05:19:57 2021 -0800 HID: alps: fix error return code in alps_input_configured() [ Upstream commit fa8ba6e5dc0e78e409e503ddcfceef5dd96527f4 ] When input_register_device() fails, no error return code is assigned. To fix this bug, ret is assigned with -ENOENT as error return code. Reported-by: TOTE Robot <oslab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-alps.c b/drivers/hid/hid-alps.c index ed9c0ea5b026..1bc6ad0339d2 100644 --- a/drivers/hid/hid-alps.c +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-alps.c @@ -429,6 +429,7 @@ static int alps_input_configured(struct hid_device *hdev, struct hid_input *hi) ret = input_register_device(data->input2); if (ret) { input_free_device(input2); + ret = -ENOENT; goto exit; } }