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

staging: iio: cdc: fix improper 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: staging-iio-cdc-fix-improper-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 Tue Nov 28 10:49:28 CET 2017

From: Pan Bian bianpan2016@163.com Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2016 21:44:30 +0800 Subject: staging: iio: cdc: fix improper return value

From: Pan Bian bianpan2016@163.com

[ Upstream commit 91ca1a8c584f55857b1f6ab20a1d3a1ce7a559bb ]

At the end of function ad7150_write_event_config(), directly returns 0. As a result, the errors will be ignored by the callers. It may be better to return variable "ret".

Signed-off-by: Pan Bian bianpan2016@163.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron jic23@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/staging/iio/cdc/ad7150.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/staging/iio/cdc/ad7150.c +++ b/drivers/staging/iio/cdc/ad7150.c @@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ static int ad7150_write_event_config(str error_ret: mutex_unlock(&chip->state_lock);

- return 0; + return ret; }

static int ad7150_read_event_value(struct iio_dev *indio_dev,

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

queue-4.9/iio-light-fix-improper-return-value.patch queue-4.9/net-3com-typhoon-typhoon_init_one-fix-incorrect-return-values.patch queue-4.9/btrfs-return-the-actual-error-value-from-from-btrfs_uuid_tree_iterate.patch queue-4.9/staging-iio-cdc-fix-improper-return-value.patch