4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit c5928551fd41b2eecdad78fa2be2a4a13ed5fde9 ] Before trying to properly initialize the touchpad and generate bunch of errors, let's first see it there is anything at the given address. If we get error, fail silently with -ENXIO. Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/input/mouse/elan_i2c_core.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/input/mouse/elan_i2c_core.c +++ b/drivers/input/mouse/elan_i2c_core.c @@ -1082,6 +1082,13 @@ static int elan_probe(struct i2c_client return error; } + /* Make sure there is something at this address */ + error = i2c_smbus_read_byte(client); + if (error < 0) { + dev_dbg(&client->dev, "nothing at this address: %d\n", error); + return -ENXIO; + } + /* Initialize the touchpad. */ error = elan_initialize(data); if (error)