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Patch "drm/hisilicon/hibmc: Fix wrong pointer passed to PTR_ERR()" has been added to the 4.10-stable tree

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

drm/hisilicon/hibmc: Fix wrong pointer passed to PTR_ERR()

to the 4.10-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-hisilicon-hibmc-fix-wrong-pointer-passed-to-ptr_err.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.10 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 bdf6f135973acb409b3ec5a6214fb597670a0bc0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Wei Yongjun <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 15:19:21 +0000
Subject: drm/hisilicon/hibmc: Fix wrong pointer passed to PTR_ERR()

From: Wei Yongjun <[email protected]>

commit bdf6f135973acb409b3ec5a6214fb597670a0bc0 upstream.

PTR_ERR should access the value just tested by IS_ERR, otherwise the wrong error code will be returned.

---
 drivers/gpu/drm/hisilicon/hibmc/hibmc_drm_fbdev.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
drivers/gpu/drm/hisilicon/hibmc/hibmc_drm_fbdev.c +1 -1
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ static int hibmc_drm_fb_create(struct dr
 
 	hi_fbdev->fb = hibmc_framebuffer_init(priv->dev, &mode_cmd, gobj);
 	if (IS_ERR(hi_fbdev->fb)) {
-		ret = PTR_ERR(info);
+		ret = PTR_ERR(hi_fbdev->fb);
 		DRM_ERROR("failed to initialize framebuffer: %d\n", ret);
 		goto out_release_fbi;
 	}

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

queue-4.10/scsi-qedi-fix-possible-memory-leak-in-qedi_iscsi_update_conn.patch queue-4.10/drm-hisilicon-hibmc-fix-wrong-pointer-passed-to-ptr_err.patch queue-4.10/spi-armada-3700-remove-spi_master_put-in-a3700_spi_remove.patch