This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled iio: light: fix improper return value 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: iio-light-fix-improper-return-value.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 Tue Nov 28 10:49:28 CET 2017 From: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@xxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2016 17:24:17 +0800 Subject: iio: light: fix improper return value From: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@xxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit db4e5376d058af8924fafd0520a0942d92538d0e ] In function cm3232_reg_init(), it returns 0 even if the last call to i2c_smbus_write_byte_data() returns a negative value (indicates error). As a result, the return value may be inconsistent with the execution status, and the caller of cm3232_reg_init() will not be able to detect the error. This patch fixes the bug. Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=188641 Signed-off-by: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/iio/light/cm3232.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/iio/light/cm3232.c +++ b/drivers/iio/light/cm3232.c @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ static int cm3232_reg_init(struct cm3232 if (ret < 0) dev_err(&chip->client->dev, "Error writing reg_cmd\n"); - return 0; + return ret; } /** Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bianpan2016@xxxxxxx are queue-4.9/iio-light-fix-improper-return-value.patch queue-4.9/net-3com-typhoon-typhoon_init_one-fix-incorrect-return-values.patch queue-4.9/btrfs-return-the-actual-error-value-from-from-btrfs_uuid_tree_iterate.patch queue-4.9/staging-iio-cdc-fix-improper-return-value.patch