This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled iio-light: Use a signed return type for ltr501_match_samp_freq() to the 4.4-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: iio-light-use-a-signed-return-type-for-ltr501_match_samp_freq.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From c08ae18560aaed50fed306a2e11f36ce70130f65 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2015 14:14:54 +0100 Subject: iio-light: Use a signed return type for ltr501_match_samp_freq() From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit c08ae18560aaed50fed306a2e11f36ce70130f65 upstream. The return type "unsigned int" was used by the ltr501_match_samp_freq() function despite of the aspect that it will eventually return a negative error code. Improve this implementation detail by deletion of the type modifier then. This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software. Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Peter Meerwald-Stadler <pmeerw@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/iio/light/ltr501.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/iio/light/ltr501.c +++ b/drivers/iio/light/ltr501.c @@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ static const struct ltr501_samp_table lt {500000, 2000000} }; -static unsigned int ltr501_match_samp_freq(const struct ltr501_samp_table *tab, +static int ltr501_match_samp_freq(const struct ltr501_samp_table *tab, int len, int val, int val2) { int i, freq; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/iio-light-use-a-signed-return-type-for-ltr501_match_samp_freq.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