From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: punnaysharma805@gmail.com, hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] staging: media: av7110: fix sp8870 initialization failure state" failed to apply to 5.10-stable tree
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2026 06:14:52 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261107061452-failed-5.10-30684fa98394@kernel.org> (raw)
The patch below does not apply to the 5.10-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.
To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:
git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-5.10.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 30684fa98394bc0eb4362282908612aab7d4dad9
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '20261107061452-failed-5.10-30684fa98394@kernel.org' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.10.y' 'HEAD^..'
Thanks,
Sasha
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
From 30684fa98394bc0eb4362282908612aab7d4dad9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Punnay Sharma <punnaysharma805@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2026 00:04:43 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] staging: media: av7110: fix sp8870 initialization failure
state
The SP8870 DVB frontend driver prematurely flags the device as
initialized at the very beginning of the sp8870_init() routine, prior
to requesting the firmware (dvb-fe-sp8870.fw) and executing the I2C
upload sequence.
If request_firmware() times out or sp8870_firmware_upload() encounters
an I2C bus error, the function aborts and returns -EIO. However,
because `state->initialised` is already set to 1, all subsequent
invocations of `fe->ops.init()` by the DVB core will immediately return
0 (success) without attempting to load the firmware again. This leaves
the demodulator microcontroller halted and the frontend permanently dead
until the module is forcibly reloaded.
Relocate the `state->initialised = 1` assignment to the end of
sp8870_init(), ensuring the flag is only set after the firmware is
successfully uploaded and the system controller is actually restarted.
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Punnay Sharma <punnaysharma805@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org>
---
drivers/staging/media/av7110/sp8870.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/av7110/sp8870.c b/drivers/staging/media/av7110/sp8870.c
index 340e4b22859d6..aecdbd87976fd 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/media/av7110/sp8870.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/media/av7110/sp8870.c
@@ -315,7 +315,6 @@ static int sp8870_init(struct dvb_frontend *fe)
sp8870_wake_up(state);
if (state->initialised)
return 0;
- state->initialised = 1;
dprintk("initialising frontend...\n");
@@ -353,6 +352,8 @@ static int sp8870_init(struct dvb_frontend *fe)
sp8870_writereg(state, 0x0D00, 0x010);
sp8870_writereg(state, 0x0D01, 0x000);
+ state->initialised = 1;
+
return 0;
}
--
2.53.0
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