[PATCH 1/4] watchdog: qcom: Propagate errors from optional IRQ lookup

Guenter Roeck linux at roeck-us.net
Fri Aug 7 17:23:17 PDT 2026


On 8/7/26 01:16, phucduc.bui at gmail.com wrote:
> From: bui duc phuc <phucduc.bui at gmail.com>
> 
> platform_get_irq_optional() returns a positive IRQ number on success or
> a negative error code on failure. For an optional IRQ, -ENXIO indicates
> that no IRQ is available, while other errors should be propagated.
> 
> Instead of only checking for -EPROBE_DEFER, propagate all error codes
> returned by platform_get_irq_optional() other than -ENXIO, so that
> failures are properly reported to the caller.
> 
> Signed-off-by: bui duc phuc <phucduc.bui at gmail.com>
> ---
>   drivers/watchdog/qcom-wdt.c | 4 ++--
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/qcom-wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/qcom-wdt.c
> index 49bd04841f0c..a8eb1d8f24f0 100644
> --- a/drivers/watchdog/qcom-wdt.c
> +++ b/drivers/watchdog/qcom-wdt.c
> @@ -298,8 +298,8 @@ static int qcom_wdt_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>   		wdt->wdd.info = &qcom_wdt_pt_info;
>   		wdt->wdd.pretimeout = 1;
>   	} else {
> -		if (irq == -EPROBE_DEFER)
> -			return -EPROBE_DEFER;
> +		if (irq != -ENXIO)
> +			return irq;

This is wrong. Check the if() path - the code ends up here if pretimeout == 0,
even if irq > 0.

Guenter




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