This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled spi: spi-fsl-spi: remove always-true conditional in fsl_spi_do_one_msg to the 4.14-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: spi-spi-fsl-spi-remove-always-true-conditional-in-fsl_spi_do_one_msg.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 24c363623361b430fb79459ca922e816e6f48603 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rasmus Villemoes <rasmus.villemoes@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2019 14:30:50 +0000 Subject: spi: spi-fsl-spi: remove always-true conditional in fsl_spi_do_one_msg From: Rasmus Villemoes <rasmus.villemoes@xxxxxxxxx> commit 24c363623361b430fb79459ca922e816e6f48603 upstream. __spi_validate() in the generic SPI code sets ->speed_hz and ->bits_per_word to non-zero values, so this condition is always true. Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <rasmus.villemoes@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/spi/spi-fsl-spi.c | 10 ++++------ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/spi/spi-fsl-spi.c +++ b/drivers/spi/spi-fsl-spi.c @@ -387,12 +387,10 @@ static int fsl_spi_do_one_msg(struct spi cs_change = 1; status = -EINVAL; list_for_each_entry(t, &m->transfers, transfer_list) { - if (t->bits_per_word || t->speed_hz) { - if (cs_change) - status = fsl_spi_setup_transfer(spi, t); - if (status < 0) - break; - } + if (cs_change) + status = fsl_spi_setup_transfer(spi, t); + if (status < 0) + break; if (cs_change) { fsl_spi_chipselect(spi, BITBANG_CS_ACTIVE); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from rasmus.villemoes@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.14/spi-spi-fsl-spi-relax-message-sanity-checking-a-little.patch queue-4.14/spi-spi-fsl-spi-remove-always-true-conditional-in-fsl_spi_do_one_msg.patch queue-4.14/spi-spi-fsl-spi-allow-changing-bits_per_word-while-cs-is-still-active.patch