Re: [PATCH] mfd: cros_ec_dev: Don't advertise junk features on failure

[Lee Jones]

On Wed, 30 May 2018, Stephen Boyd wrote:

> If the feature query fails during this driver's probe, we memset the
> features bits to 0, but then we continue to overwrite that with whatever
> junk we read back when the feature probing failed. In the case of a SPI
> device, it may be complete junk, causing the caller of this function to
> think certain features are present when they aren't. Don't copy over the
> bad message on failure so we can fail more gracefully.
> 
> Fixes: e4244ebddae2 ("platform/chrome: Introduce a new function to check EC features.")
> Cc: Benson Leung <bleung@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Enric Balletbo i Serra <enric.balletbo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Gwendal Grignou <gwendal@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/mfd/cros_ec_dev.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks.

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