This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled Fix tracing sample code 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: fix-tracing-sample-code-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 a0cb2b5c390151837b08e5f7bca4a6ecddbcd39c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 20:35:31 -0700 Subject: Fix tracing sample code warning. From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit a0cb2b5c390151837b08e5f7bca4a6ecddbcd39c upstream. Commit 6575257c60e1 ("tracing/samples: Fix creation and deletion of simple_thread_fn creation") introduced a new warning due to using a boolean as a counter. Just make it "int". Fixes: 6575257c60e1 ("tracing/samples: Fix creation and deletion of simple_thread_fn creation") Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- samples/trace_events/trace-events-sample.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/samples/trace_events/trace-events-sample.c +++ b/samples/trace_events/trace-events-sample.c @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ static int simple_thread_fn(void *arg) } static DEFINE_MUTEX(thread_mutex); -static bool simple_thread_cnt; +static int simple_thread_cnt; void foo_bar_reg(void) { Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/ocfs2-fstrim-fix-start-offset-of-first-cluster-group-during-fstrim.patch queue-4.9/fix-tracing-sample-code-warning.patch