This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ASoC: dapm: fix some pointer error handling to the 4.4-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: asoc-dapm-fix-some-pointer-error-handling.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 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 10:49:14 CEST 2017 From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 14:07:52 +0100 Subject: ASoC: dapm: fix some pointer error handling From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 639467c8f26d834c934215e8b59129ce442475fe ] commit 66feeec9322132689d42723df2537d60f96f8e44 "RFC: ASoC: dapm: handle probe deferrals" forgot a to update some two sites where the call was used. The static codechecks quickly found them. Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 66feeec93221 ("RFC: ASoC: dapm: handle probe deferrals") Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- sound/soc/soc-dapm.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) --- a/sound/soc/soc-dapm.c +++ b/sound/soc/soc-dapm.c @@ -3794,6 +3794,16 @@ int snd_soc_dapm_new_dai_widgets(struct template.name); w = snd_soc_dapm_new_control_unlocked(dapm, &template); + if (IS_ERR(w)) { + int ret = PTR_ERR(w); + + /* Do not nag about probe deferrals */ + if (ret != -EPROBE_DEFER) + dev_err(dapm->dev, + "ASoC: Failed to create %s widget (%d)\n", + dai->driver->playback.stream_name, ret); + return ret; + } if (!w) { dev_err(dapm->dev, "ASoC: Failed to create %s widget\n", dai->driver->playback.stream_name); @@ -3813,6 +3823,16 @@ int snd_soc_dapm_new_dai_widgets(struct template.name); w = snd_soc_dapm_new_control_unlocked(dapm, &template); + if (IS_ERR(w)) { + int ret = PTR_ERR(w); + + /* Do not nag about probe deferrals */ + if (ret != -EPROBE_DEFER) + dev_err(dapm->dev, + "ASoC: Failed to create %s widget (%d)\n", + dai->driver->playback.stream_name, ret); + return ret; + } if (!w) { dev_err(dapm->dev, "ASoC: Failed to create %s widget\n", dai->driver->capture.stream_name); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/asoc-dapm-handle-probe-deferrals.patch queue-4.4/pinctrl-mvebu-use-seq_puts-in-mvebu_pinconf_group_dbg_show.patch queue-4.4/asoc-dapm-fix-some-pointer-error-handling.patch