This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mfd: max77843: Fix max77843_chg_init() return on error to the 4.1-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: mfd-max77843-fix-max77843_chg_init-return-on-error.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 1b52e50f2a402a266f1ba2281f0a57e87637a047 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 14:26:54 +0200 Subject: mfd: max77843: Fix max77843_chg_init() return on error From: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 1b52e50f2a402a266f1ba2281f0a57e87637a047 upstream. If i2c_new_dummy() fails in max77843_chg_init(), an PTR_ERR(NULL) is returned which is 0. So the function was wrongly returning a success value instead of an error code. Fixes: c7f585fe46d8 ("mfd: max77843: Add max77843 MFD driver core driver") Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/mfd/max77843.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/mfd/max77843.c +++ b/drivers/mfd/max77843.c @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ static int max77843_chg_init(struct max7 if (!max77843->i2c_chg) { dev_err(&max77843->i2c->dev, "Cannot allocate I2C device for Charger\n"); - return PTR_ERR(max77843->i2c_chg); + return -ENODEV; } i2c_set_clientdata(max77843->i2c_chg, max77843); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from javier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.1/mfd-max77843-fix-max77843_chg_init-return-on-error.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html