This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled MIPS: Lantiq: Fix another request_mem_region() return code check 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: mips-lantiq-fix-another-request_mem_region-return-code-check.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 Thu Oct 5 10:28:31 CEST 2017 From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 16:18:40 +0100 Subject: MIPS: Lantiq: Fix another request_mem_region() return code check From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 98ea51cb0c8ce009d9da1fd7b48f0ff1d7a9bbb0 ] Hauke already fixed a couple of them, but one instance remains that checks for a negative integer when it should check for a NULL pointer: arch/mips/lantiq/xway/sysctrl.c: In function 'ltq_soc_init': arch/mips/lantiq/xway/sysctrl.c:473:19: error: ordered comparison of pointer with integer zero [-Werror=extra] Fixes: 6e807852676a ("MIPS: Lantiq: Fix check for return value of request_mem_region()") Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Cc: John Crispin <john@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/15043/ Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/mips/lantiq/xway/sysctrl.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/arch/mips/lantiq/xway/sysctrl.c +++ b/arch/mips/lantiq/xway/sysctrl.c @@ -469,8 +469,8 @@ void __init ltq_soc_init(void) panic("Failed to load xbar nodes from devicetree"); if (of_address_to_resource(np_xbar, 0, &res_xbar)) panic("Failed to get xbar resources"); - if (request_mem_region(res_xbar.start, resource_size(&res_xbar), - res_xbar.name) < 0) + if (!request_mem_region(res_xbar.start, resource_size(&res_xbar), + res_xbar.name)) panic("Failed to get xbar resources"); ltq_xbar_membase = ioremap_nocache(res_xbar.start, Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from arnd@xxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/mips-lantiq-fix-another-request_mem_region-return-code-check.patch