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

Revert "leds: lp5523: fix a missing check of return value of

to my char-misc git tree which can be found at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.git in the char-misc-linus branch.

The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)

The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the next -rc kernel release.

If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.

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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Date: Mon, 3 May 2021 13:56:35 +0200 Subject: Revert "leds: lp5523: fix a missing check of return value of lp55xx_read"

This reverts commit 248b57015f35c94d4eae2fdd8c6febf5cd703900.

Because of recent interactions with developers from @umn.edu, all commits from them have been recently re-reviewed to ensure if they were correct or not.

Upon review, this commit was found to be incorrect for the reasons below, so it must be reverted. It will be fixed up "correctly" in a later kernel change.

The original commit does not properly unwind if there is an error condition so it needs to be reverted at this point in time.

Cc: Kangjie Lu kjlu@umn.edu Cc: Jacek Anaszewski jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com Cc: stable stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 248b57015f35 ("leds: lp5523: fix a missing check of return value of lp55xx_read") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210503115736.2104747-9-gregkh@linuxfoundation.or... Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/leds/leds-lp5523.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/leds/leds-lp5523.c b/drivers/leds/leds-lp5523.c index fc433e63b1dc..5036d7d5f3d4 100644 --- a/drivers/leds/leds-lp5523.c +++ b/drivers/leds/leds-lp5523.c @@ -305,9 +305,7 @@ static int lp5523_init_program_engine(struct lp55xx_chip *chip)

/* Let the programs run for couple of ms and check the engine status */ usleep_range(3000, 6000); - ret = lp55xx_read(chip, LP5523_REG_STATUS, &status); - if (ret) - return ret; + lp55xx_read(chip, LP5523_REG_STATUS, &status); status &= LP5523_ENG_STATUS_MASK;

if (status != LP5523_ENG_STATUS_MASK) {