Re: [PATCH v2] leds: gpio: Clear error pointers for skipped LEDs

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Thank you for your contribution! Sashiko AI review found 1 potential issue(s) to consider:

Pre-existing issues:
- [High] The driver masks -EPROBE_DEFER from GPIO fetching functions and incorrectly skips the LED instead of deferring the probe.
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--- Patch [1]: [PATCH v2] leds: gpio: Clear error pointers for skipped LEDs ---
commit 2d09674f074f178fbc54110548c9a0816564760c
Author: Steve Dunnagan <sdunnaga@redhat.com>

leds: gpio: Clear error pointers for skipped LEDs

When an LED's GPIO is unavailable, the error pointer is left in led_dat->gpiod.
During shutdown this error pointer is passed to gpio_led_set(), producing an
invalid GPIO warning. This commit clears the error pointer to prevent the
warning.

> diff --git a/drivers/leds/leds-gpio.c b/drivers/leds/leds-gpio.c
> index 8ae71c2e91e01..8810fdcf2d774 100644
> --- a/drivers/leds/leds-gpio.c
> +++ b/drivers/leds/leds-gpio.c
> @@ -277,6 +277,7 @@ static int gpio_led_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  			if (IS_ERR(led_dat->gpiod)) {
>  				dev_info(dev, "Skipping unavailable LED gpio %d (%s)\n",
>  					 template->gpio, template->name);

[Severity: High]
This isn't a bug introduced by this patch, but does this unconditionally skip
the LED even if gpio_led_get_gpiod() returns -EPROBE_DEFER?

If the GPIO controller providing the LED pins hasn't probed yet,
gpio_led_get_gpiod() returns ERR_PTR(-EPROBE_DEFER) to gpio_led_probe(). By
catching all error pointers with IS_ERR() here and continuing, the driver
completes the probe without the deferred LED instead of actually deferring,
permanently breaking the LED's functionality.

Would it be better to use dev_err_probe() here to correctly handle
-EPROBE_DEFER?

> +				led_dat->gpiod = NULL;
>  				continue;
>  			}
>

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