This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ASoC: simple-card: Fix misleading error message 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: asoc-simple-card-fix-misleading-error-message.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 7ac45d1635a4cd2e99a4b11903d4a2815ca1b27b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Julian Scheel <julian@xxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 12:28:23 +0200 Subject: ASoC: simple-card: Fix misleading error message From: Julian Scheel <julian@xxxxxxxx> commit 7ac45d1635a4cd2e99a4b11903d4a2815ca1b27b upstream. In case cpu could not be found the error message would always refer to /codec/ not being found in DT. Fix this by catching the cpu node not found case explicitly. Signed-off-by: Julian Scheel <julian@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: thongsyho <thong.ho.px@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Nhan Nguyen <nhan.nguyen.yb@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- sound/soc/generic/simple-card.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/sound/soc/generic/simple-card.c +++ b/sound/soc/generic/simple-card.c @@ -232,13 +232,19 @@ static int asoc_simple_card_dai_link_of( snprintf(prop, sizeof(prop), "%scpu", prefix); cpu = of_get_child_by_name(node, prop); + if (!cpu) { + ret = -EINVAL; + dev_err(dev, "%s: Can't find %s DT node\n", __func__, prop); + goto dai_link_of_err; + } + snprintf(prop, sizeof(prop), "%splat", prefix); plat = of_get_child_by_name(node, prop); snprintf(prop, sizeof(prop), "%scodec", prefix); codec = of_get_child_by_name(node, prop); - if (!cpu || !codec) { + if (!codec) { ret = -EINVAL; dev_err(dev, "%s: Can't find %s DT node\n", __func__, prop); goto dai_link_of_err; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from julian@xxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/asoc-simple-card-fix-misleading-error-message.patch