This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled xen-pciback: Fix return in pm_ctrl_init() 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: xen-pciback-fix-return-in-pm_ctrl_init.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 e68081925517870d18770b5e46d126503a228d9e Author: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Oct 8 15:44:17 2021 +0800 xen-pciback: Fix return in pm_ctrl_init() [ Upstream commit 4745ea2628bb43a7ec34b71763b5a56407b33990 ] Return NULL instead of passing to ERR_PTR while err is zero, this fix smatch warnings: drivers/xen/xen-pciback/conf_space_capability.c:163 pm_ctrl_init() warn: passing zero to 'ERR_PTR' Fixes: a92336a1176b ("xen/pciback: Drop two backends, squash and cleanup some code.") Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211008074417.8260-1-yuehaibing@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/xen/xen-pciback/conf_space_capability.c b/drivers/xen/xen-pciback/conf_space_capability.c index b1a1d7de0894e..daa2e89a50fa3 100644 --- a/drivers/xen/xen-pciback/conf_space_capability.c +++ b/drivers/xen/xen-pciback/conf_space_capability.c @@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ static void *pm_ctrl_init(struct pci_dev *dev, int offset) } out: - return ERR_PTR(err); + return err ? ERR_PTR(err) : NULL; } static const struct config_field caplist_pm[] = {