This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled spi: davinci: use dma_mapping_error() 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: spi-davinci-use-dma_mapping_error.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 foo@baz Mon Jul 3 13:29:10 CEST 2017 From: Kevin Hilman <khilman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 18:18:40 -0800 Subject: spi: davinci: use dma_mapping_error() From: Kevin Hilman <khilman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit c5a2a394835f473ae23931eda5066d3771d7b2f8 ] The correct error checking for dma_map_single() is to use dma_mapping_error(). Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/spi/spi-davinci.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/spi/spi-davinci.c +++ b/drivers/spi/spi-davinci.c @@ -646,7 +646,7 @@ static int davinci_spi_bufs(struct spi_d buf = t->rx_buf; t->rx_dma = dma_map_single(&spi->dev, buf, t->len, DMA_FROM_DEVICE); - if (!t->rx_dma) { + if (dma_mapping_error(&spi->dev, !t->rx_dma)) { ret = -EFAULT; goto err_rx_map; } @@ -660,7 +660,7 @@ static int davinci_spi_bufs(struct spi_d buf = (void *)t->tx_buf; t->tx_dma = dma_map_single(&spi->dev, buf, t->len, DMA_TO_DEVICE); - if (!t->tx_dma) { + if (dma_mapping_error(&spi->dev, t->tx_dma)) { ret = -EFAULT; goto err_tx_map; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from khilman@xxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/spi-davinci-use-dma_mapping_error.patch queue-4.9/arm64-dts-meson-gxbb-odroidc2-fix-gbe-tx-link-breakage.patch