This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ata: sata_mv: Fix the error handling of mv_chip_id() to the 4.14-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: ata-sata_mv-fix-the-error-handling-of-mv_chip_id.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From a0023bb9dd9bc439d44604eeec62426a990054cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zheyu Ma <zheyuma97@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2021 09:12:26 +0000 Subject: ata: sata_mv: Fix the error handling of mv_chip_id() From: Zheyu Ma <zheyuma97@xxxxxxxxx> commit a0023bb9dd9bc439d44604eeec62426a990054cd upstream. mv_init_host() propagates the value returned by mv_chip_id() which in turn gets propagated by mv_pci_init_one() and hits local_pci_probe(). During the process of driver probing, the probe function should return < 0 for failure, otherwise, the kernel will treat value > 0 as success. Since this is a bug rather than a recoverable runtime error we should use dev_alert() instead of dev_err(). Signed-off-by: Zheyu Ma <zheyuma97@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/ata/sata_mv.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/ata/sata_mv.c +++ b/drivers/ata/sata_mv.c @@ -3907,8 +3907,8 @@ static int mv_chip_id(struct ata_host *h break; default: - dev_err(host->dev, "BUG: invalid board index %u\n", board_idx); - return 1; + dev_alert(host->dev, "BUG: invalid board index %u\n", board_idx); + return -EINVAL; } hpriv->hp_flags = hp_flags; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from zheyuma97@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.14/ata-sata_mv-fix-the-error-handling-of-mv_chip_id.patch