Patch "Revert "led: core: Fix brightness setting when setting delay_off=0"" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    Revert "led: core: Fix brightness setting when setting delay_off=0"

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:
     revert-led-core-fix-brightness-setting-when-setting-delay_off-0.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 ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk  Thu Mar  8 09:31:04 2018
From: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2018 15:59:07 +0000
Subject: Revert "led: core: Fix brightness setting when setting delay_off=0"
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com>, Matthieu CASTET <matthieu.castet@parrot.com>, stable@vger.kernel.org
Message-ID: <20180308155906.5zaldlnuxvxmh2wo@xylophone.i.decadent.org.uk>
Content-Disposition: inline

From: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk>

This reverts commit 20ac8f72514b3af8b62c520d55656ded865eff00, which
was commit 2b83ff96f51d0b039c4561b9f95c824d7bddb85c upstream.
The bug that it should fix was only introduced in Linux 4.7, and
in 4.4 it causes a regression.

Reported-by: Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthieu CASTET <matthieu.castet@parrot.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/leds/led-core.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/leds/led-core.c
+++ b/drivers/leds/led-core.c
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ void led_blink_set(struct led_classdev *
 		   unsigned long *delay_on,
 		   unsigned long *delay_off)
 {
-	led_stop_software_blink(led_cdev);
+	del_timer_sync(&led_cdev->blink_timer);
 
 	led_cdev->flags &= ~LED_BLINK_ONESHOT;
 	led_cdev->flags &= ~LED_BLINK_ONESHOT_STOP;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk are

queue-4.4/x86-spectre-fix-an-error-message.patch
queue-4.4/revert-led-core-fix-brightness-setting-when-setting-delay_off-0.patch
queue-4.4/x86-apic-vector-handle-legacy-irq-data-correctly.patch