From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:49341 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932904AbcIEOYj (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Sep 2016 10:24:39 -0400 Subject: Patch "ACPI / sysfs: fix error code in get_status()" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree To: dan.carpenter@oracle.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com Cc: , From: Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2016 16:23:59 +0200 Message-ID: <147308543995179@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ACPI / sysfs: fix error code in get_status() to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: acpi-sysfs-fix-error-code-in-get_status.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 know about it. >>From f18ebc211e259d4f591e39e74b2aa2de226c9a1d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Carpenter Date: Thu, 5 May 2016 16:23:04 +0300 Subject: ACPI / sysfs: fix error code in get_status() From: Dan Carpenter commit f18ebc211e259d4f591e39e74b2aa2de226c9a1d upstream. The problem with ornamental, do-nothing gotos is that they lead to "forgot to set the error code" bugs. We should be returning -EINVAL here but we don't. It leads to an uninitalized variable in counter_show(): drivers/acpi/sysfs.c:603 counter_show() error: uninitialized symbol 'status'. Fixes: 1c8fce27e275 (ACPI: introduce drivers/acpi/sysfs.c) Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/acpi/sysfs.c | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/acpi/sysfs.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/sysfs.c @@ -555,23 +555,22 @@ static void acpi_global_event_handler(u3 static int get_status(u32 index, acpi_event_status *status, acpi_handle *handle) { - int result = 0; + int result; if (index >= num_gpes + ACPI_NUM_FIXED_EVENTS) - goto end; + return -EINVAL; if (index < num_gpes) { result = acpi_get_gpe_device(index, handle); if (result) { ACPI_EXCEPTION((AE_INFO, AE_NOT_FOUND, "Invalid GPE 0x%x", index)); - goto end; + return result; } result = acpi_get_gpe_status(*handle, index, status); } else if (index < (num_gpes + ACPI_NUM_FIXED_EVENTS)) result = acpi_get_event_status(index - num_gpes, status); -end: return result; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.carpenter@oracle.com are queue-4.4/crypto-nx-off-by-one-bug-in-nx_of_update_msc.patch queue-4.4/acpi-sysfs-fix-error-code-in-get_status.patch queue-4.4/usb-gadget-fsl_qe_udc-off-by-one-in-setup_received_handle.patch