From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935040AbdJJURp (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Oct 2017 16:17:45 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:47286 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932809AbdJJUFE (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Oct 2017 16:05:04 -0400 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Matt Fornero , Lars-Peter Clausen , Jonathan Cameron Subject: [PATCH 4.13 085/160] iio: core: Return error for failed read_reg Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 21:50:13 +0200 Message-Id: <20171010190552.128208026@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.14.2 In-Reply-To: <20171010190548.690912997@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20171010190548.690912997@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.65 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 4.13-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Matt Fornero commit 3d62c78a6eb9a7d67bace9622b66ad51e81c5f9b upstream. If an IIO device returns an error code for a read access via debugfs, it is currently ignored by the IIO core (other than emitting an error message). Instead, return this error code to user space, so upper layers can detect it correctly. Signed-off-by: Matt Fornero Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c +++ b/drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c @@ -310,8 +310,10 @@ static ssize_t iio_debugfs_read_reg(stru ret = indio_dev->info->debugfs_reg_access(indio_dev, indio_dev->cached_reg_addr, 0, &val); - if (ret) + if (ret) { dev_err(indio_dev->dev.parent, "%s: read failed\n", __func__); + return ret; + } len = snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "0x%X\n", val);