Re: [PATCH] HID: mcp2221: Fix GPIO output handling

From: Bjorn Helgaas
Date: Tue Nov 29 2022 - 10:39:41 EST


[+cc Takayuki, thanks for your report!]

On Wed, Nov 04, 2020 at 11:02:23PM +0100, Lars Povlsen wrote:
> The mcp2221 driver GPIO output handling has has several issues.
>
> * A wrong value is used for the GPIO direction.
>
> * Wrong offsets are calculated for some GPIO set value/set direction
> operations, when offset is larger than 0.
>
> This has been fixed by introducing proper manifest constants for the
> direction encoding, and using 'offsetof' when calculating GPIO
> register offsets.
>
> The updated driver has been tested with the Sparx5 pcb134/pcb135
> board, which has the mcp2221 device with several (output) GPIO's.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lars Povlsen <lars.povlsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/hid/hid-mcp2221.c | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
> 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-mcp2221.c b/drivers/hid/hid-mcp2221.c
> index 0d27ccb55dd9..4211b9839209 100644
> --- a/drivers/hid/hid-mcp2221.c
> +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-mcp2221.c

> +/* MCP GPIO get command layout */
> +struct mcp_get_gpio {
> + u8 cmd;
> + u8 dummy;
> + struct {
> + u8 direction;
> + u8 value;
> + } gpio[MCP_NGPIO];
> +} __packed;

This bug report: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216736
suggests that direction and value may be reversed here.

Mentioning here in case nobody actively monitors the bugzilla.

Bjorn