This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
HID: pidff: fix error return code in hid_pidff_init()
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:
hid-pidff-fix-error-return-code-in-hid_pidff_init.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 48cab278a4d6cc27f3562d1a032c561754c3d022
Author: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat May 8 10:47:37 2021 +0800
HID: pidff: fix error return code in hid_pidff_init()
[ Upstream commit 3dd653c077efda8152f4dd395359617d577a54cd ]
Fix to return a negative error code from the error handling
case instead of 0, as done elsewhere in this function.
Fixes: 224ee88fe395 ("Input: add force feedback driver for PID devices")
Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-pidff.c b/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-pidff.c
index 08174d341f4a..bc75f1efa0f4 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-pidff.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-pidff.c
@@ -1304,6 +1304,7 @@ int hid_pidff_init(struct hid_device *hid)
if (pidff->pool[PID_DEVICE_MANAGED_POOL].value &&
pidff->pool[PID_DEVICE_MANAGED_POOL].value[0] == 0) {
+ error = -EPERM;
hid_notice(hid,
"device does not support device managed pool\n");
goto fail;
