This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ath10k: use the right length of "background" to the 4.9-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: ath10k-use-the-right-length-of-background.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 31b239824ece321c09bdb8e61e1d14814eaba38b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@xxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2016 13:17:37 +0200 Subject: ath10k: use the right length of "background" From: Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@xxxxxxx> commit 31b239824ece321c09bdb8e61e1d14814eaba38b upstream. The word "background" contains 10 characters so the third argument of strncmp() need to be 10 in order to match this prefix correctly. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@xxxxxxx> Fixes: 855aed1220d2 ("ath10k: add spectral scan feature") Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/spectral.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/spectral.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/spectral.c @@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ static ssize_t write_file_spec_scan_ctl( } else { res = -EINVAL; } - } else if (strncmp("background", buf, 9) == 0) { + } else if (strncmp("background", buf, 10) == 0) { res = ath10k_spectral_scan_config(ar, SPECTRAL_BACKGROUND); } else if (strncmp("manual", buf, 6) == 0) { res = ath10k_spectral_scan_config(ar, SPECTRAL_MANUAL); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from nicolas.iooss_linux@xxxxxxx are queue-4.9/ath10k-use-the-right-length-of-background.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