This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled clk: at91: fix check of clk_register() returned value to the 4.6-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: clk-at91-fix-check-of-clk_register-returned-value.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.6 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From cb0ceaf77d93964a0d00477c79f4499123f6159c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vz@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 01:41:29 +0200 Subject: clk: at91: fix check of clk_register() returned value From: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vz@xxxxxxxxx> commit cb0ceaf77d93964a0d00477c79f4499123f6159c upstream. The clk_register() function returns a valid pointer to struct clk or ERR_PTR() error code, this makes a check for returned NULL value useless and may lead to oops on error path. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vz@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: bcc5fd49a0fd ("clk: at91: add a driver for the h32mx clock") Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/clk/at91/clk-h32mx.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/clk/at91/clk-h32mx.c +++ b/drivers/clk/at91/clk-h32mx.c @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ static void __init of_sama5d4_clk_h32mx_ h32mxclk->regmap = regmap; clk = clk_register(NULL, &h32mxclk->hw); - if (!clk) { + if (IS_ERR(clk)) { kfree(h32mxclk); return; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from vz@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.6/clk-at91-fix-check-of-clk_register-returned-value.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