Re: [PATCH 4.19 070/276] media: stm32-dcmi: return appropriate error codes during probe

From: Fabien DESSENNE
Date: Fri May 31 2019 - 04:45:06 EST


Hi Pavel


On 31/05/2019 10:19 AM, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> [ Upstream commit b5b5a27bee5884860798ffd0f08e611a3942064b ]
>>
>> During probe, return the provided errors value instead of -ENODEV.
>> This allows the driver to be deferred probed if needed.
> This is not correct AFAICT.


The driver gets defer probed *if needed*. *if needed* is for the case
where platform_get_irq returns -EPROBE_DEFER, which happens if the irq
controller is not ready yet.

Of course, for the other cases, the probe would just fail.


>
>
>> --- a/drivers/media/platform/stm32/stm32-dcmi.c
>> +++ b/drivers/media/platform/stm32/stm32-dcmi.c
>> @@ -1673,8 +1673,9 @@ static int dcmi_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>>
>> irq = platform_get_irq(pdev, 0);
>> if (irq <= 0) {
>> - dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Could not get irq\n");
>> - return -ENODEV;
>> + if (irq != -EPROBE_DEFER)
>> + dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Could not get irq\n");
>> + return irq;
>> }
>>
>> dcmi->res = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, 0);
> irq == 0 is clearly means error here, but will be interpretted as
> success when returned to the caller.


Thank you for pointing this.

It shall be 'return irq ? irq : -ENXIO;'  I will send a fix for this.


>
> As device is not initialized at that point, I'd expect some kind of
> crash later.
> Pavel