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

usb: dwc3: keystone: check return value

to the 4.9-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-dwc3-keystone-check-return-value.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@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From foo@baz Mon Apr 9 17:09:24 CEST 2018

From: Pan Bian bianpan2016@163.com Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2017 13:55:13 +0800 Subject: usb: dwc3: keystone: check return value

From: Pan Bian bianpan2016@163.com

[ Upstream commit 018047a1dba7636e1f7fdae2cc290a528991d648 ]

Function devm_clk_get() returns an ERR_PTR when it fails. However, in function kdwc3_probe(), its return value is not checked, which may result in a bad memory access bug. This patch fixes the bug.

Signed-off-by: Pan Bian bianpan2016@163.com Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi felipe.balbi@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-keystone.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-keystone.c +++ b/drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-keystone.c @@ -107,6 +107,10 @@ static int kdwc3_probe(struct platform_d return PTR_ERR(kdwc->usbss);

kdwc->clk = devm_clk_get(kdwc->dev, "usb"); + if (IS_ERR(kdwc->clk)) { + dev_err(kdwc->dev, "unable to get usb clock\n"); + return PTR_ERR(kdwc->clk); + }

error = clk_prepare_enable(kdwc->clk); if (error < 0) {

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bianpan2016@163.com are

queue-4.9/cx25840-fix-unchecked-return-values.patch queue-4.9/usb-dwc3-keystone-check-return-value.patch queue-4.9/rtc-snvs-fix-an-incorrect-check-of-return-value.patch