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

staging: speakup: Replace BUG_ON() with WARN_ON().

to the 4.4-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-speakup-replace-bug_on-with-warn_on.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 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 Mar 19 09:58:11 CET 2018

From: Varsha Rao rvarsha016@gmail.com Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2017 17:53:58 +0530 Subject: staging: speakup: Replace BUG_ON() with WARN_ON().

From: Varsha Rao rvarsha016@gmail.com

[ Upstream commit d351c2db5420bb17dcd2d9aac7ddb5f64c6d04b3 ]

BUG_ON() is replaced with WARN_ON() and EINVAL is returned, when WARN_ON() is true. This fixes the following checkpatch issue:

Avoid crashing the kernel - try using WARN_ON & recovery code rather than BUG() or BUG_ON().

Signed-off-by: Varsha Rao rvarsha016@gmail.com Reviewed-by: Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/staging/speakup/kobjects.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/staging/speakup/kobjects.c +++ b/drivers/staging/speakup/kobjects.c @@ -831,7 +831,9 @@ static ssize_t message_show(struct kobje struct msg_group_t *group = spk_find_msg_group(attr->attr.name); unsigned long flags;

- BUG_ON(!group); + if (WARN_ON(!group)) + return -EINVAL; + spin_lock_irqsave(&speakup_info.spinlock, flags); retval = message_show_helper(buf, group->start, group->end); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&speakup_info.spinlock, flags); @@ -843,7 +845,9 @@ static ssize_t message_store(struct kobj { struct msg_group_t *group = spk_find_msg_group(attr->attr.name);

- BUG_ON(!group); + if (WARN_ON(!group)) + return -EINVAL; + return message_store_helper(buf, count, group); }

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from rvarsha016@gmail.com are

queue-4.4/staging-speakup-replace-bug_on-with-warn_on.patch