This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled serial: 8250_of: fix return code when probe function fails to get reset to the 4.15-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: serial-8250_of-fix-return-code-when-probe-function-fails-to-get-reset.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From b9820a31691b771db37afe2054dd3d3a680c1eed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2017 14:21:05 +0900 Subject: serial: 8250_of: fix return code when probe function fails to get reset From: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit b9820a31691b771db37afe2054dd3d3a680c1eed upstream. The error pointer from devm_reset_control_get_optional_shared() is not propagated. One of the most common problem scenarios is it returns -EPROBE_DEFER when the reset controller has not probed yet. In this case, the probe of the reset consumer should be deferred. Fixes: e2860e1f62f2 ("serial: 8250_of: Add reset support") Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_of.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_of.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_of.c @@ -136,8 +136,11 @@ static int of_platform_serial_setup(stru } info->rst = devm_reset_control_get_optional_shared(&ofdev->dev, NULL); - if (IS_ERR(info->rst)) + if (IS_ERR(info->rst)) { + ret = PTR_ERR(info->rst); goto err_dispose; + } + ret = reset_control_deassert(info->rst); if (ret) goto err_dispose; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.15/serial-8250_of-fix-return-code-when-probe-function-fails-to-get-reset.patch queue-4.15/mtd-nand-denali_pci-add-missing-module_description-author-license.patch queue-4.15/serial-8250_uniphier-fix-error-return-code-in-uniphier_uart_probe.patch