[PATCH 6.18 181/212] hwmon: (pmbus/mp2975) Add error check for pmbus_read_word_data() return value

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-03-23T14:09:38Z

From: Sanman Pradhan <psanman@juniper.net>

commit 19d4b9c8a136704d5f2544e7ac550f27918a5004 upstream.

mp2973_read_word_data() XORs the return value of pmbus_read_word_data()
with PB_STATUS_POWER_GOOD_N without first checking for errors. If the I2C
transaction fails, a negative error code is XORed with the constant,
producing a corrupted value that is returned as valid status data instead
of propagating the error.

Add the missing error check before modifying the return value.

Fixes: acda945afb465 ("hwmon: (pmbus/mp2975) Fix PGOOD in READ_STATUS_WORD")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sanman Pradhan <psanman@juniper.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260317173308.382545-3-sanman.pradhan@hpe.com
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/hwmon/pmbus/mp2975.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/hwmon/pmbus/mp2975.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/pmbus/mp2975.c
@@ -313,6 +313,8 @@ static int mp2973_read_word_data(struct
case PMBUS_STATUS_WORD:
/* MP2973 & MP2971 return PGOOD instead of PB_STATUS_POWER_GOOD_N. */
ret = pmbus_read_word_data(client, page, phase, reg);
+ if (ret < 0)
+ return ret;
ret ^= PB_STATUS_POWER_GOOD_N;
break;