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

drm/sun4i: Fix a return value in case of error

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: drm-sun4i-fix-a-return-value-in-case-of-error.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.

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From: Christophe JAILLET christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 19:18:47 +0100 Subject: drm/sun4i: Fix a return value in case of error

From: Christophe JAILLET christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr

[ Upstream commit 0f0861e31e3c59ca4bc1ec59d99260cfca79740e ]

If 'sun4i_backend_drm_format_to_layer()' does not return 0, then 'val' is left unmodified. As it is not initialized either, the return value can be anything.

It is likely that returning the error code was expected here.

As the only caller of 'sun4i_backend_update_layer_formats()' does not check the return value, this fix is purely theorical.

Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun4i_backend.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun4i_backend.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun4i_backend.c @@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ int sun4i_backend_update_layer_formats(s ret = sun4i_backend_drm_format_to_layer(plane, fb->pixel_format, &val); if (ret) { DRM_DEBUG_DRIVER("Invalid format\n"); - return val; + return ret; }

regmap_update_bits(backend->regs, SUN4I_BACKEND_ATTCTL_REG1(layer),

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr are

queue-4.9/drm-sun4i-fix-a-return-value-in-case-of-error.patch queue-4.9/pinctrl-sirf-atlas7-add-missing-of_node_put.patch