Re: [PATCH] staging: iio: adc: fix error return code in ad7606_par_probe()

From: Jonathan Cameron
Date: Sat Aug 12 2017 - 08:36:43 EST


On Wed, 9 Aug 2017 10:38:56 -0500
"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> platform_get_irq() returns an error code, but the ad7606_par driver
> ignores it and always returns -ENODEV. This is not correct and,
> prevents -EPROBE_DEFER from being propagated properly.
>
> Print and propagate the return value of platform_get_irq on failure.
>
> This issue was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Applied to the togreg branch of iio.git.

As we have no reports of anyone actually finding this a problem I'm
taking it the slow way and it will wait for the next merge window.

Thanks,

Jonathan
> ---
> drivers/staging/iio/adc/ad7606_par.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/iio/adc/ad7606_par.c b/drivers/staging/iio/adc/ad7606_par.c
> index cd6c410c..3eb6f8f 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/iio/adc/ad7606_par.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/iio/adc/ad7606_par.c
> @@ -57,8 +57,8 @@ static int ad7606_par_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>
> irq = platform_get_irq(pdev, 0);
> if (irq < 0) {
> - dev_err(&pdev->dev, "no irq\n");
> - return -ENODEV;
> + dev_err(&pdev->dev, "no irq: %d\n", irq);
> + return irq;
> }
>
> res = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, 0);