This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled iwlwifi: Fix -EIO error code that is never returned to the 5.15-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: iwlwifi-fix-eio-error-code-that-is-never-returned.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit b1e50995bc1ebc499c9554818b8e98e3adff52d0 Author: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Sep 7 11:46:58 2021 +0100 iwlwifi: Fix -EIO error code that is never returned [ Upstream commit c305c94bdc18e45b5ad1db54da4269f8cbfdff6b ] Currently the error -EIO is being assinged to variable ret when the READY_BIT is not set but the function iwlagn_mac_start returns 0 rather than ret. Fix this by returning ret instead of 0. Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value") Fixes: 7335613ae27a ("iwlwifi: move all mac80211 related functions to one place") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210907104658.14706-1-colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/dvm/mac80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/dvm/mac80211.c index 75e7665773c5..90fe4adca492 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/dvm/mac80211.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/dvm/mac80211.c @@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ static int iwlagn_mac_start(struct ieee80211_hw *hw) priv->is_open = 1; IWL_DEBUG_MAC80211(priv, "leave\n"); - return 0; + return ret; } static void iwlagn_mac_stop(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)