[PATCH] staging: greybus: vibrator: return device_create() errors
From: Alfie Varghese
Date: Thu May 28 2026 - 09:59:55 EST
gb_vibrator_probe() maps any device_create() failure to -EINVAL. This
loses the real errno returned by the driver core, such as -ENOMEM, and
makes probe failures harder to diagnose correctly.
Return PTR_ERR(dev) instead so callers receive the actual failure reason
while preserving the existing cleanup path.
Signed-off-by: Alfie Varghese <alfievarghese22@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/greybus/vibrator.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/greybus/vibrator.c b/drivers/staging/greybus/vibrator.c
index 0ec4d317c..763c234fb 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/greybus/vibrator.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/greybus/vibrator.c
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ static int gb_vibrator_probe(struct gb_bundle *bundle,
dev = device_create(&vibrator_class, &bundle->dev,
MKDEV(0, 0), vib, "vibrator%d", vib->minor);
if (IS_ERR(dev)) {
- retval = -EINVAL;
+ retval = PTR_ERR(dev);
goto err_ida_remove;
}
vib->dev = dev;
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2.54.0.windows.1