From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Mathias Nyman , Linus Walleij Subject: [ 04/24] gpiolib: Dont return -EPROBE_DEFER to sysfs, or for invalid gpios Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2012 10:06:52 -0700 Message-Id: <20121102170247.744136705@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20121102170247.406319110@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20121102170247.406319110@linuxfoundation.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.6-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Mathias Nyman 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 Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- 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)