This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled staging: iio: cdc: 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: staging-iio-cdc-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 21:44:30 +0800 Subject: staging: iio: cdc: fix improper return value From: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@xxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 91ca1a8c584f55857b1f6ab20a1d3a1ce7a559bb ] At the end of function ad7150_write_event_config(), directly returns 0. As a result, the errors will be ignored by the callers. It may be better to return variable "ret". 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/staging/iio/cdc/ad7150.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/staging/iio/cdc/ad7150.c +++ b/drivers/staging/iio/cdc/ad7150.c @@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ static int ad7150_write_event_config(str error_ret: mutex_unlock(&chip->state_lock); - return 0; + return ret; } static int ad7150_read_event_value(struct iio_dev *indio_dev, 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