[ 04/24] gpiolib: Dont return -EPROBE_DEFER to sysfs, or for invalid gpios

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-11-02T17:13:23Z

From: Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@linux.intel.com>

commit ad2fab36d7922401c4576fb7ea9b21a47a29a17f upstream.

gpios requested with invalid numbers, or gpios requested from userspace via sysfs
should not try to be deferred on failure.

Signed-off-by: Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c | 10 +++++++---
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
@@ -623,9 +623,11 @@ static ssize_t export_store(struct class
*/

status = gpio_request(gpio, "sysfs");
- if (status < 0)
+ if (status < 0) {
+ if (status == -EPROBE_DEFER)
+ status = -ENODEV;
goto done;
-
+ }
status = gpio_export(gpio, true);
if (status < 0)
gpio_free(gpio);
@@ -1191,8 +1193,10 @@ int gpio_request(unsigned gpio, const ch

spin_lock_irqsave(&gpio_lock, flags);

- if (!gpio_is_valid(gpio))
+ if (!gpio_is_valid(gpio)) {
+ status = -EINVAL;
goto done;
+ }
desc = &gpio_desc[gpio];
chip = desc->chip;
if (chip == NULL)