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

staging: wlan-ng: ensure error return is actually returned

to my staging git tree which can be found at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git in the staging-testing branch.

The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)

The patch will be merged to the staging-next branch sometime soon, after it passes testing, and the merge window is open.

If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.

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From: Colin Ian King colin.king@canonical.com Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 18:16:04 +0000 Subject: staging: wlan-ng: ensure error return is actually returned

Currently when the call to prism2sta_ifst fails a netdev_err error is reported, error return variable result is set to -1 but the function always returns 0 for success. Fix this by returning the error value in variable result rather than 0.

Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value") Fixes: 00b3ed168508 ("Staging: add wlan-ng prism2 usb driver") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King colin.king@canonical.com Cc: stable stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200114181604.390235-1-colin.king@canonical.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2mgmt.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2mgmt.c b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2mgmt.c index 7350fe5d96a3..a8860d2aee68 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2mgmt.c +++ b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2mgmt.c @@ -959,7 +959,7 @@ int prism2mgmt_flashdl_state(struct wlandevice *wlandev, void *msgp) } }

- return 0; + return result; }

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