[PATCH] Revert "gpio: bail out silently on NULL descriptors"

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 15-06-16 20:46, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 08:22:34PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> This reverts commit 54d77198fdfb("gpio: bail out silently on NULL
>> descriptors").
>>
>> This commit causes the following code to fail:
>>
>> gpio_desc = devm_gpiod_get_optional(dev, ...);
>> gpio_irq  = gpiod_to_irq(gpio_desc);
>> if (gpio_irq >= 0) {
>> 	ret = devm_request_irq(dev, gpio_irq, ...);
>>
>> And now ret is an error causing the probe function in question to bail.
>>
>> The problem here is that gpiod_to_irq now returns 0 for a NULL
>> gpio_desc while 0 is a valid irq-nr. Also see:
>> commit 4c37ce8608a8("gpio: make gpiod_to_irq() return negative for NO_IRQ")
>> which specifically avoids returning 0.
>
> 0 is not a valid interrupt number.

Ok, so lets decouple the discussion a bit from whether or not 0
is a valid interrupt number.

> irq_find_mapping returns 0 in case of an error:
> http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/kernel/irq/irqdomain.c#L657

Yes and in that case gpiod_to_irq() will explicitly return -ENXIO
so as to not confuse callers.

Which is the right thing to do, since almost all kernel functions
have the semantic ret < 0 means error >= 0 means success.

The patch I'm suggestion to revert however now has gpiod_to_irq()
return 0 when it gets passed a NULL gpio_desc pointer, so this
really has nothing to do with irq_find_mapping() at all (that never
gets called in this case) and has everything to do with the
patch I suggest we revert changing the behavior for
gpiod_to_irq(NULL).

Also not that that patch has a Cc: stable, so fix the driver is
really not a good answer, stable patches should not change
(internal) api behavior and break other code.

Regards,

Hans