This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled hwmon: (ltc2945) Handle error case in ltc2945_value_store to the 6.2-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: hwmon-ltc2945-handle-error-case-in-ltc2945_value_sto.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.2 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit de26e5e650610a9d0298b70bc3a1f3bbadee4ba0 Author: Jonathan Cormier <jcormier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Jan 26 17:32:25 2023 -0500 hwmon: (ltc2945) Handle error case in ltc2945_value_store [ Upstream commit 178b01eccfb0b8149682f61388400bd3d903dddc ] ltc2945_val_to_reg errors were not being handled which would have resulted in register being set to 0 (clamped) instead of being left alone. Fixes: 6700ce035f83 ("hwmon: Driver for Linear Technologies LTC2945") Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cormier <jcormier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/ltc2945.c b/drivers/hwmon/ltc2945.c index 9adebb59f6042..c06ab7317431f 100644 --- a/drivers/hwmon/ltc2945.c +++ b/drivers/hwmon/ltc2945.c @@ -248,6 +248,8 @@ static ssize_t ltc2945_value_store(struct device *dev, /* convert to register value, then clamp and write result */ regval = ltc2945_val_to_reg(dev, reg, val); + if (regval < 0) + return regval; if (is_power_reg(reg)) { regval = clamp_val(regval, 0, 0xffffff); regbuf[0] = regval >> 16;