This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled media: pulse8-cec: handle possible ping error 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: media-pulse8-cec-handle-possible-ping-error.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 15de3c5c78bf396287870401ce4b6c47e503520f Author: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Jun 6 06:38:15 2023 +0200 media: pulse8-cec: handle possible ping error [ Upstream commit 92cbf865ea2e0f2997ff97815c6db182eb23df1b ] Handle (and warn about) possible error waiting for MSGCODE_PING result. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/media/cec/usb/pulse8/pulse8-cec.c b/drivers/media/cec/usb/pulse8/pulse8-cec.c index 04b13cdc38d2c..ba67587bd43ec 100644 --- a/drivers/media/cec/usb/pulse8/pulse8-cec.c +++ b/drivers/media/cec/usb/pulse8/pulse8-cec.c @@ -809,8 +809,11 @@ static void pulse8_ping_eeprom_work_handler(struct work_struct *work) mutex_lock(&pulse8->lock); cmd = MSGCODE_PING; - pulse8_send_and_wait(pulse8, &cmd, 1, - MSGCODE_COMMAND_ACCEPTED, 0); + if (pulse8_send_and_wait(pulse8, &cmd, 1, + MSGCODE_COMMAND_ACCEPTED, 0)) { + dev_warn(pulse8->dev, "failed to ping EEPROM\n"); + goto unlock; + } if (pulse8->vers < 2) goto unlock;