FAILED: patch "[PATCH] efi: Fix handling error value in fdt_find_uefi_params" failed to apply to 4.7-stable tree

FAILED: patch "[PATCH] efi: Fix handling error value in fdt_find_uefi_params" failed to apply to 4.7-stable tree

[gregkh]

The patch below does not apply to the 4.7-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>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

>From 4af9ed578a50cd331a725322cfd9d555251ce788 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@samsung.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 12:41:37 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] efi: Fix handling error value in fdt_find_uefi_params

of_get_flat_dt_subnode_by_name can return negative value in case of error.
Assigning the result to unsigned variable and checking if the variable
is lesser than zero is incorrect and always false.
The patch fixes it by using signed variable to check the result.

The problem has been detected using semantic patch
scripts/coccinelle/tests/unsigned_lesser_than_zero.cocci

Signed-off-by: Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@samsung.com>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Shawn Lin <shawn.lin@rock-chips.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
index 5a2631af7410..7dd2e2d37231 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
@@ -657,9 +657,12 @@ static int __init fdt_find_uefi_params(unsigned long node, const char *uname,
 		}
 
 		if (subnode) {
-			node = of_get_flat_dt_subnode_by_name(node, subnode);
-			if (node < 0)
+			int err = of_get_flat_dt_subnode_by_name(node, subnode);
+
+			if (err < 0)
 				return 0;
+
+			node = err;
 		}
 
 		return __find_uefi_params(node, info, dt_params[i].params);