This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled platform/x86: sony-laptop: Fix error handling in sony_nc_setup_rfkill() to the 3.18-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: platform-x86-sony-laptop-fix-error-handling-in-sony_nc_setup_rfkill.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 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 Mon Dec 18 15:03:25 CET 2017 From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 18:42:45 +0100 Subject: platform/x86: sony-laptop: Fix error handling in sony_nc_setup_rfkill() From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit f6c8a317ab208aee223776327c06f23342492d54 ] Source code review for a specific software refactoring showed the need for another correction because the error code "-1" was returned so far if a call of the function "sony_call_snc_handle" failed here. Thus assign the return value from these two function calls also to the variable "err" and provide it in case of a failure. Fixes: d6f15ed876b83a1a0eba1d0473eef58acc95444a ("sony-laptop: use soft rfkill status stored in hw") Suggested-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/10/31/463 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/<CAHp75VcMkXCioCzmLE0+BTmkqc5RSOx9yPO0ectVHMrMvewgwg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/platform/x86/sony-laptop.c | 14 ++++++++------ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/platform/x86/sony-laptop.c +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/sony-laptop.c @@ -1654,17 +1654,19 @@ static int sony_nc_setup_rfkill(struct a if (!rfk) return -ENOMEM; - if (sony_call_snc_handle(sony_rfkill_handle, 0x200, &result) < 0) { + err = sony_call_snc_handle(sony_rfkill_handle, 0x200, &result); + if (err < 0) { rfkill_destroy(rfk); - return -1; + return err; } hwblock = !(result & 0x1); - if (sony_call_snc_handle(sony_rfkill_handle, - sony_rfkill_address[nc_type], - &result) < 0) { + err = sony_call_snc_handle(sony_rfkill_handle, + sony_rfkill_address[nc_type], + &result); + if (err < 0) { rfkill_destroy(rfk); - return -1; + return err; } swblock = !(result & 0x2); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.18/platform-x86-sony-laptop-fix-error-handling-in-sony_nc_setup_rfkill.patch