Patch "iio: core: Return error for failed read_reg" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

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

iio: core: Return error for failed read_reg

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:
iio-core-return-error-for-failed-read_reg.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.

From: Matt Fornero <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2017 16:34:10 +0200
Subject: iio: core: Return error for failed read_reg

From: Matt Fornero <[email protected]>

commit 3d62c78a6eb9a7d67bace9622b66ad51e81c5f9b upstream.

If an IIO device returns an error code for a read access via debugfs, it is currently ignored by the IIO core (other than emitting an error message). Instead, return this error code to user space, so upper layers can detect it correctly.

---
 drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -188,8 +188,10 @@ static ssize_t iio_debugfs_read_reg(stru
 	ret = indio_dev->info->debugfs_reg_access(indio_dev,
 						  indio_dev->cached_reg_addr,
 						  0, &val);
-	if (ret)
+	if (ret) {
 		dev_err(indio_dev->dev.parent, "%s: read failed\n", __func__);
+		return ret;
+	}
 
 	len = snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "0x%X\n", val);
 

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

queue-3.18/iio-core-return-error-for-failed-read_reg.patch