[PATCH] pinctrl: sirf: atlas7: fix of_irq_get() error check

Sergei Shtylyov sergei.shtylyov at cogentembedded.com
Mon Aug 7 02:53:27 PDT 2017


Hello!

On 8/7/2017 12:07 PM, Linus Walleij wrote:

>>>> of_irq_get() may return  any negative error number as well as 0 on
>>>> failure,
>>>> while the driver only checks for -EPROBE_DEFER, blithely continuing with
>>>> the call to gpiochip_set_chained_irqchip() -- that function expects the
>>>> parent IRQ as *unsigned int*, so would probably do nothing  when a large
>>>> IRQ number resulting from a conversion of a negative error number is
>>>> passed
>>>> to it, however passing 0 would probably work but the driver won't receive
>>>> valid GPIO bank interrupts.
>>>>
>>>> Check for 'ret <= 0' instead and return -ENXIO from the driver's probe
>>>> iff
>>>> of_irq_get() returned 0.
>>>>
>>>> Fixes: f9367793293d ("pinctrl: sirf: add sirf atlas7 pinctrl and gpio
>>>> support")
>>>> Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov at cogentembedded.com>
>>>
>>>
>>> Patch applied!
>>
>>
>>    Thanks! But to which branch? I'm not seeing it in linux-pinctrl.git...
> 
> devel.

    Still not seeing the patch, perhaps you forgot to push?

> It seems the SiRF people are not using upstream (see other mails) so I do
> not see we need to expediate it to fixes.

    Up to you.

> Yours,
> Linus Walleij

MBR, Sergei



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