This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mei: remove dev_err message on an unsupported ioctl 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: mei-remove-dev_err-message-on-an-unsupported-ioctl.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 bb0829a741792b56c908d7745bc0b2b540293bcc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 16:21:05 +0000 Subject: mei: remove dev_err message on an unsupported ioctl From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit bb0829a741792b56c908d7745bc0b2b540293bcc upstream. Currently the driver spams the kernel log on unsupported ioctls which is unnecessary as the ioctl returns -ENOIOCTLCMD to indicate this anyway. I suspect this was originally for debugging purposes but it really is not required so remove it. Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/misc/mei/main.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/misc/mei/main.c +++ b/drivers/misc/mei/main.c @@ -551,7 +551,6 @@ static long mei_ioctl(struct file *file, break; default: - dev_err(dev->dev, ": unsupported ioctl %d.\n", cmd); rets = -ENOIOCTLCMD; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/mei-remove-dev_err-message-on-an-unsupported-ioctl.patch