This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ics932s401: fix broken handling of errors when word reading fails to the 5.12-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: ics932s401-fix-broken-handling-of-errors-when-word-reading-fails.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.12 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From a73b6a3b4109ce2ed01dbc51a6c1551a6431b53c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2021 15:25:34 -0700 Subject: ics932s401: fix broken handling of errors when word reading fails From: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> commit a73b6a3b4109ce2ed01dbc51a6c1551a6431b53c upstream. In commit b05ae01fdb89, someone tried to make the driver handle i2c read errors by simply zeroing out the register contents, but for some reason left unaltered the code that sets the cached register value the function call return value. The original patch was authored by a member of the Underhanded Mangle-happy Nerds, I'm not terribly surprised. I don't have the hardware anymore so I can't test this, but it seems like a pretty obvious API usage fix to me... Fixes: b05ae01fdb89 ("misc/ics932s401: Add a missing check to i2c_smbus_read_word_data") Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210428222534.GJ3122264@magnolia Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/misc/ics932s401.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/misc/ics932s401.c b/drivers/misc/ics932s401.c index 2bdf560ee681..0f9ea75b0b18 100644 --- a/drivers/misc/ics932s401.c +++ b/drivers/misc/ics932s401.c @@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ static struct ics932s401_data *ics932s401_update_device(struct device *dev) for (i = 0; i < NUM_MIRRORED_REGS; i++) { temp = i2c_smbus_read_word_data(client, regs_to_copy[i]); if (temp < 0) - data->regs[regs_to_copy[i]] = 0; + temp = 0; data->regs[regs_to_copy[i]] = temp >> 8; } -- 2.31.1 Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from djwong@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.12/ics932s401-fix-broken-handling-of-errors-when-word-reading-fails.patch