This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ASoC: tfa9879: Fix return value check in tfa9879_i2c_probe() to the 4.0-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-tfa9879-fix-return-value-check-in-tfa9879_i2c_probe.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.0 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 427ced4b203dfea4f08b1298cd1f88e19039fca4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 20:17:46 +0800 Subject: ASoC: tfa9879: Fix return value check in tfa9879_i2c_probe() From: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 427ced4b203dfea4f08b1298cd1f88e19039fca4 upstream. In case of error, the function devm_kzalloc() returns NULL not ERR_PTR(). The IS_ERR() test in the return value check should be replaced with NULL test. Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Peter Rosin <peda@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- sound/soc/codecs/tfa9879.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/sound/soc/codecs/tfa9879.c +++ b/sound/soc/codecs/tfa9879.c @@ -280,8 +280,8 @@ static int tfa9879_i2c_probe(struct i2c_ int i; tfa9879 = devm_kzalloc(&i2c->dev, sizeof(*tfa9879), GFP_KERNEL); - if (IS_ERR(tfa9879)) - return PTR_ERR(tfa9879); + if (!tfa9879) + return -ENOMEM; i2c_set_clientdata(i2c, tfa9879); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from yongjun_wei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.0/asoc-samsung-s3c24xx-i2s-fix-return-value-check-in-s3c24xx_iis_dev_probe.patch queue-4.0/asoc-tfa9879-fix-return-value-check-in-tfa9879_i2c_probe.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html