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 6.1-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-6.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 830dec27ed173e5701d9d87f51d8d9b1134346f3
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;
