Patch "ASoC: dapm: fix some pointer error handling" 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

ASoC: dapm: fix some pointer error handling

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:
asoc-dapm-fix-some-pointer-error-handling.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: Linus Walleij <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 14:07:52 +0100
Subject: ASoC: dapm: fix some pointer error handling

From: Linus Walleij <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 639467c8f26d834c934215e8b59129ce442475fe ]

commit 66feeec9322132689d42723df2537d60f96f8e44 "RFC: ASoC: dapm: handle probe deferrals" forgot a to update some two sites where the call was used. The static codechecks quickly found them.

---
 sound/soc/soc-dapm.c |   20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)

@@ -3843,6 +3843,16 @@ int snd_soc_dapm_new_dai_widgets(struct
 			template.name);
 
 		w = snd_soc_dapm_new_control_unlocked(dapm, &template);
+		if (IS_ERR(w)) {
+			int ret = PTR_ERR(w);
+
+			/* Do not nag about probe deferrals */
+			if (ret != -EPROBE_DEFER)
+				dev_err(dapm->dev,
+				"ASoC: Failed to create %s widget (%d)\n",
+				dai->driver->playback.stream_name, ret);
+			return ret;
+		}
 		if (!w) {
 			dev_err(dapm->dev, "ASoC: Failed to create %s widget\n",
 				dai->driver->playback.stream_name);

@@ -3862,6 +3872,16 @@ int snd_soc_dapm_new_dai_widgets(struct
 			template.name);
 
 		w = snd_soc_dapm_new_control_unlocked(dapm, &template);
+		if (IS_ERR(w)) {
+			int ret = PTR_ERR(w);
+
+			/* Do not nag about probe deferrals */
+			if (ret != -EPROBE_DEFER)
+				dev_err(dapm->dev,
+				"ASoC: Failed to create %s widget (%d)\n",
+				dai->driver->playback.stream_name, ret);
+			return ret;
+		}
 		if (!w) {
 			dev_err(dapm->dev, "ASoC: Failed to create %s widget\n",
 				dai->driver->capture.stream_name);

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

queue-4.9/asoc-dapm-handle-probe-deferrals.patch queue-4.9/pinctrl-mvebu-use-seq_puts-in-mvebu_pinconf_group_dbg_show.patch queue-4.9/asoc-dapm-fix-some-pointer-error-handling.patch