This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
drivers/misc/c2port/c2port-duramar2150.c: checking for NULL instead of IS_ERR()
to the 4.11-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:
drivers-misc-c2port-c2port-duramar2150.c-checking-for-null-instead-of-is_err.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.11 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 8128a31eaadbcdfa37774bbd28f3f00bac69996a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 8 May 2017 15:55:17 -0700
Subject: drivers/misc/c2port/c2port-duramar2150.c: checking for NULL instead of IS_ERR()
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 8128a31eaadbcdfa37774bbd28f3f00bac69996a upstream.
c2port_device_register() never returns NULL, it uses error pointers.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170412083321.GC3250@mwanda
Fixes: 65131cd52b9e ("c2port: add c2port support for Eurotech Duramar 2150")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/misc/c2port/c2port-duramar2150.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/misc/c2port/c2port-duramar2150.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/c2port/c2port-duramar2150.c
@@ -129,8 +129,8 @@ static int __init duramar2150_c2port_ini
duramar2150_c2port_dev = c2port_device_register("uc",
&duramar2150_c2port_ops, NULL);
- if (!duramar2150_c2port_dev) {
- ret = -ENODEV;
+ if (IS_ERR(duramar2150_c2port_dev)) {
+ ret = PTR_ERR(duramar2150_c2port_dev);
goto free_region;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.11/drivers-misc-c2port-c2port-duramar2150.c-checking-for-null-instead-of-is_err.patch
queue-4.11/iio-adc-ti_am335x_adc-allocating-too-much-in-probe.patch
queue-4.11/staging-bcm2835-camera-fix-error-handling-in-init.patch
queue-4.11/staging-rtl8188eu-prevent-an-underflow-in-rtw_check_beacon_data.patch