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Patch "drm/vmwgfx: Fix gcc-7.1.1 warning" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

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

drm/vmwgfx: Fix gcc-7.1.1 warning

to the 3.18-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:

     drm-vmwgfx-fix-gcc-7.1.1-warning.patch

and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.

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

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From fcfffdd8f98ac305285dca568b5065ef86be6458 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Sinclair Yeh <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2017 23:28:36 -0700
Subject: drm/vmwgfx: Fix gcc-7.1.1 warning

From: Sinclair Yeh <[email protected]>

commit fcfffdd8f98ac305285dca568b5065ef86be6458 upstream.

The current code does not look correct, and the reason for it is probably lost. Since this now generates a compiler warning, fix it to what makes sense.

---
 drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_execbuf.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_execbuf.c +1 -1
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ static int vmw_cmd_invalid(struct vmw_pr
 			   struct vmw_sw_context *sw_context,
 			   SVGA3dCmdHeader *header)
 {
-	return capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) ? : -EINVAL;
+	return -EINVAL;
 }
 
 static int vmw_cmd_ok(struct vmw_private *dev_priv,

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

queue-3.18/drm-vmwgfx-fix-gcc-7.1.1-warning.patch