This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
misc: mei: client.c: return negative error code in mei_cl_write
to the 6.6-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:
misc-mei-client.c-return-negative-error-code-in-mei_.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.6 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 93d4cdc31dfca96c4fd1de73885354453a25b462
Author: Su Hui <suhui@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Nov 20 17:55:23 2023 +0800
misc: mei: client.c: return negative error code in mei_cl_write
[ Upstream commit 8f06aee8089cf42fd99a20184501bd1347ce61b9 ]
mei_msg_hdr_init() return negative error code, rets should be
'PTR_ERR(mei_hdr)' rather than '-PTR_ERR(mei_hdr)'.
Fixes: 0cd7c01a60f8 ("mei: add support for mei extended header.")
Signed-off-by: Su Hui <suhui@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231120095523.178385-1-suhui@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/misc/mei/client.c b/drivers/misc/mei/client.c
index 5c19097266fe0..75bc2a32ec0d7 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/mei/client.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/mei/client.c
@@ -2011,7 +2011,7 @@ ssize_t mei_cl_write(struct mei_cl *cl, struct mei_cl_cb *cb, unsigned long time
mei_hdr = mei_msg_hdr_init(cb);
if (IS_ERR(mei_hdr)) {
- rets = -PTR_ERR(mei_hdr);
+ rets = PTR_ERR(mei_hdr);
mei_hdr = NULL;
goto err;
}
