> > > > A report from Colin Ian King pointed a CoverityScan issue where error
> > > > values on these helpers where not checked in the drivers. These
> > > > helpers can error out only in case of a software bug in driver code,
> > > > not because of a runtime/hardware error. Hence, let's WARN_ON() in this
> > > > case and return 0 which is harmless anyway.
> > > >
> > > > Fixes: 8878b126df76 ("mtd: nand: add ->exec_op() implementation")
> > > > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >
> > > Is it really worth backporting this patch? I mean, the bug does not
> > > exist, it's just a potential problem that can only arise when
> > > drivers/core are buggy, which AFAICT is not the case yet :-).
> >
> > Ok, I'll remove the Cc: stable tag but I guess I can keep the Fixes
> > one.
>
> Sure.
Applied to nand/next without the cc:stable tag.
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Miquel Raynal, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons)
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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