Patch "drivers/misc/c2port/c2port-duramar2150.c: checking for NULL instead of IS_ERR()" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

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

drivers/misc/c2port/c2port-duramar2150.c: checking for NULL instead of IS_ERR()

to the 4.9-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:
drivers-misc-c2port-c2port-duramar2150.c-checking-for-null-instead-of-is_err.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 8 May 2017 15:55:17 -0700
Subject: drivers/misc/c2port/c2port-duramar2150.c: checking for NULL instead of IS_ERR()

From: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>

commit 8128a31eaadbcdfa37774bbd28f3f00bac69996a upstream.

c2port_device_register() never returns NULL, it uses error pointers.

---
 drivers/misc/c2port/c2port-duramar2150.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

@@ -129,8 +129,8 @@ static int __init duramar2150_c2port_ini
 
 	duramar2150_c2port_dev = c2port_device_register("uc",
 					&duramar2150_c2port_ops, NULL);
-	if (!duramar2150_c2port_dev) {
-		ret = -ENODEV;
+	if (IS_ERR(duramar2150_c2port_dev)) {
+		ret = PTR_ERR(duramar2150_c2port_dev);
 		goto free_region;
 	}
 

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.9/misc-mic-double-free-on-ioctl-error-path.patch queue-4.9/drivers-misc-c2port-c2port-duramar2150.c-checking-for-null-instead-of-is_err.patch queue-4.9/iio-adc-ti_am335x_adc-allocating-too-much-in-probe.patch queue-4.9/staging-rtl8188eu-prevent-an-underflow-in-rtw_check_beacon_data.patch