This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mfd: sm501: Add check for platform_driver_register() to the 6.0-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: mfd-sm501-add-check-for-platform_driver_register.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.0 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 63cc48c3c3418ddc312a12b79c637df8e701d9a5 Author: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Sep 13 17:11:12 2022 +0800 mfd: sm501: Add check for platform_driver_register() [ Upstream commit 8325a6c24ad78b8c1acc3c42b098ee24105d68e5 ] As platform_driver_register() can return error numbers, it should be better to check platform_driver_register() and deal with the exception. Fixes: b6d6454fdb66 ("[PATCH] mfd: SM501 core driver") Signed-off-by: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220913091112.1739138-1-jiasheng@xxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/mfd/sm501.c b/drivers/mfd/sm501.c index bc0a2c38653e..3ac4508a6742 100644 --- a/drivers/mfd/sm501.c +++ b/drivers/mfd/sm501.c @@ -1720,7 +1720,12 @@ static struct platform_driver sm501_plat_driver = { static int __init sm501_base_init(void) { - platform_driver_register(&sm501_plat_driver); + int ret; + + ret = platform_driver_register(&sm501_plat_driver); + if (ret < 0) + return ret; + return pci_register_driver(&sm501_pci_driver); }