FAILED: patch "[PATCH] acpi, nfit: Fix ARS overflow continuation" failed to apply to 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 4.9-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 3fa58dcab50a0aa16817f16a8d38aee869eb3fb9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2018 00:30:22 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] acpi, nfit: Fix ARS overflow continuation

When the platform BIOS is unable to report all the media error records
it requires the OS to restart the scrub at a prescribed location. The
driver detects the overflow condition, but then fails to report it to
the ARS state machine after reaping the records. Propagate -ENOSPC
correctly to continue the ARS operation.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Fixes: 1cf03c00e7c1 ("nfit: scrub and register regions in a workqueue")
Reported-by: Jacek Zloch <jacek.zloch@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/nfit/core.c b/drivers/acpi/nfit/core.c
index f8c638f3c946..5970b8f5f768 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/nfit/core.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/nfit/core.c
@@ -2928,9 +2928,9 @@ static int acpi_nfit_query_poison(struct acpi_nfit_desc *acpi_desc)
 		return rc;
 
 	if (ars_status_process_records(acpi_desc))
-		return -ENOMEM;
+		dev_err(acpi_desc->dev, "Failed to process ARS records\n");
 
-	return 0;
+	return rc;
 }
 
 static int ars_register(struct acpi_nfit_desc *acpi_desc,