This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

USB: usbmon: remove assignment from IS_ERR argument

to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: usb-usbmon-remove-assignment-from-is_err-argument.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From 46c236dc7d1212d7417e6fb0317f91c44c719322 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Julia Lawall Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2015 22:57:44 +0100 Subject: USB: usbmon: remove assignment from IS_ERR argument

From: Julia Lawall Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr

commit 46c236dc7d1212d7417e6fb0317f91c44c719322 upstream.

The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl> @@ expression e1,e2; statement S1,S2; @@

+e1 = e2; if (IS_ERR( e1 - = e2 )) S1 else S2 // </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- drivers/usb/mon/mon_text.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/usb/mon/mon_text.c +++ b/drivers/usb/mon/mon_text.c @@ -386,7 +386,8 @@ static ssize_t mon_text_read_t(struct fi struct mon_event_text *ep; struct mon_text_ptr ptr;

- if (IS_ERR(ep = mon_text_read_wait(rp, file))) + ep = mon_text_read_wait(rp, file); + if (IS_ERR(ep)) return PTR_ERR(ep); mutex_lock(&rp->printf_lock); ptr.cnt = 0; @@ -413,7 +414,8 @@ static ssize_t mon_text_read_u(struct fi struct mon_event_text *ep; struct mon_text_ptr ptr;

- if (IS_ERR(ep = mon_text_read_wait(rp, file))) + ep = mon_text_read_wait(rp, file); + if (IS_ERR(ep)) return PTR_ERR(ep); mutex_lock(&rp->printf_lock); ptr.cnt = 0;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr are

queue-3.18/usb-usbmon-remove-assignment-from-is_err-argument.patch