This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ssb: Fix error routine when fallback SPROM fails to the 4.8-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: ssb-fix-error-routine-when-fallback-sprom-fails.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 8052d7245b6089992343c80b38b14dbbd8354651 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2016 14:08:57 -0500 Subject: ssb: Fix error routine when fallback SPROM fails From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 8052d7245b6089992343c80b38b14dbbd8354651 upstream. When there is a CRC error in the SPROM read from the device, the code attempts to handle a fallback SPROM. When this also fails, the driver returns zero rather than an error code. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/ssb/pci.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/drivers/ssb/pci.c +++ b/drivers/ssb/pci.c @@ -909,6 +909,7 @@ static int ssb_pci_sprom_get(struct ssb_ if (err) { ssb_warn("WARNING: Using fallback SPROM failed (err %d)\n", err); + goto out_free; } else { ssb_dbg("Using SPROM revision %d provided by platform\n", sprom->revision); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.8/rtlwifi-fix-enter-exit-power_save.patch queue-4.8/ssb-fix-error-routine-when-fallback-sprom-fails.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