This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled iio: accel: kxsd9: fix the usage of spi_w8r8() to the 3.14-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-accel-kxsd9-fix-the-usage-of-spi_w8r8.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 0c1f91b98552da49d9d8eed32b3132a58d2f4598 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 15:22:24 +0200 Subject: iio: accel: kxsd9: fix the usage of spi_w8r8() From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 0c1f91b98552da49d9d8eed32b3132a58d2f4598 upstream. These two spi_w8r8() calls return a value with is used by the code following the error check. The dubious use was caused by a cleanup patch. Fixes: d34dbee8ac8e ("staging:iio:accel:kxsd9 cleanup and conversion to iio_chan_spec.") Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/iio/accel/kxsd9.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/iio/accel/kxsd9.c +++ b/drivers/iio/accel/kxsd9.c @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ static int kxsd9_write_scale(struct iio_ mutex_lock(&st->buf_lock); ret = spi_w8r8(st->us, KXSD9_READ(KXSD9_REG_CTRL_C)); - if (ret) + if (ret < 0) goto error_ret; st->tx[0] = KXSD9_WRITE(KXSD9_REG_CTRL_C); st->tx[1] = (ret & ~KXSD9_FS_MASK) | i; @@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ static int kxsd9_read_raw(struct iio_dev break; case IIO_CHAN_INFO_SCALE: ret = spi_w8r8(st->us, KXSD9_READ(KXSD9_REG_CTRL_C)); - if (ret) + if (ret < 0) goto error_ret; *val2 = kxsd9_micro_scales[ret & KXSD9_FS_MASK]; ret = IIO_VAL_INT_PLUS_MICRO; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.14/crypto-ux500-memmove-the-right-size.patch queue-3.14/iio-accel-kxsd9-fix-the-usage-of-spi_w8r8.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