This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled of: fix autoloading due to broken modalias with no 'compatible' 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: of-fix-autoloading-due-to-broken-modalias-with-no-compatible.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 b3c0a4dab7e35a9b6d69c0415641d2280fdefb2b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wolfram Sang <wsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 18:48:38 +0200 Subject: of: fix autoloading due to broken modalias with no 'compatible' From: Wolfram Sang <wsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit b3c0a4dab7e35a9b6d69c0415641d2280fdefb2b upstream. Because of an improper dereference, a stray 'C' character was output to the modalias when no 'compatible' was specified. This is the case for some old PowerMac drivers which only set the 'name' property. Fix it to let them match again. Reported-by: Mathieu Malaterre <malat@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Mathieu Malaterre <malat@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 6543becf26fff6 ("mod/file2alias: make modalias generation safe for cross compiling") Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/mod/file2alias.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/scripts/mod/file2alias.c +++ b/scripts/mod/file2alias.c @@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ static void do_of_entry_multi(void *symv len = sprintf(alias, "of:N%sT%s", (*name)[0] ? *name : "*", (*type)[0] ? *type : "*"); - if (compatible[0]) + if ((*compatible)[0]) sprintf(&alias[len], "%sC%s", (*type)[0] ? "*" : "", *compatible); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from wsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.6/of-fix-autoloading-due-to-broken-modalias-with-no-compatible.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