This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
drm/vmwgfx: Fix gcc-7.1.1 warning
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:
drm-vmwgfx-fix-gcc-7.1.1-warning.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 fcfffdd8f98ac305285dca568b5065ef86be6458 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sinclair Yeh <syeh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2017 23:28:36 -0700
Subject: drm/vmwgfx: Fix gcc-7.1.1 warning
From: Sinclair Yeh <syeh@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit fcfffdd8f98ac305285dca568b5065ef86be6458 upstream.
The current code does not look correct, and the reason for it is
probably lost. Since this now generates a compiler warning,
fix it to what makes sense.
Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sinclair Yeh <syeh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Brian Paul <brianp@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_execbuf.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_execbuf.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_execbuf.c
@@ -519,7 +519,7 @@ static int vmw_cmd_invalid(struct vmw_pr
struct vmw_sw_context *sw_context,
SVGA3dCmdHeader *header)
{
- return capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) ? : -EINVAL;
+ return -EINVAL;
}
static int vmw_cmd_ok(struct vmw_private *dev_priv,
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from syeh@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/drm-vmwgfx-fix-gcc-7.1.1-warning.patch