This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled wifi: ath9k: fix parameter check in ath9k_init_debug() to the 5.4-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: wifi-ath9k-fix-parameter-check-in-ath9k_init_debug.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 9027fcdc94f62f2cd5189876ce185ce8589f48af Author: Minjie Du <duminjie@xxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Jul 12 19:47:40 2023 +0800 wifi: ath9k: fix parameter check in ath9k_init_debug() [ Upstream commit 6edb4ba6fb5b946d112259f54f4657f82eb71e89 ] Make IS_ERR() judge the debugfs_create_dir() function return in ath9k_init_debug() Signed-off-by: Minjie Du <duminjie@xxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <quic_kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230712114740.13226-1-duminjie@xxxxxxxx Stable-dep-of: f6ffe7f01847 ("wifi: ath9k: Remove error checks when creating debugfs entries") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/debug.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/debug.c index 8d98347e0ddff..42f404119912f 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/debug.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/debug.c @@ -1371,7 +1371,7 @@ int ath9k_init_debug(struct ath_hw *ah) sc->debug.debugfs_phy = debugfs_create_dir("ath9k", sc->hw->wiphy->debugfsdir); - if (!sc->debug.debugfs_phy) + if (IS_ERR(sc->debug.debugfs_phy)) return -ENOMEM; #ifdef CONFIG_ATH_DEBUG