Re: [PATCH net] net: ibm: emac: fix unchecked platform_get_irq return value

[Jacob Keller]

On 5/31/2026 9:02 PM, Rosen Penev wrote:
> platform_get_irq() returns a negative errno on failure.
> Commit a598f66d9169 replaced irq_of_parse_and_map() (which returns 0
> on failure) with platform_get_irq() but dropped the error check.
> Without it, a negative IRQ number is passed to devm_request_irq(),
> which fails with -EINVAL instead of propagating the real error
> from platform_get_irq().
> 

Yep, looking through devm_request_irq, it seems most likely to fail on
irq_to_desc().

Definitely more explicit to correctly check the return value, though it
seems like a relatively minor cleanup since we do fail almost immediately.

Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@xxxxxxxxx>

> Add the missing error check and goto err_gone.
> 
> Fixes: a598f66d9169 ("net: ibm: emac: use platform_get_irq")
> Assisted-by: Opencode:Big-Pickle
> Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/core.c | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/core.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/core.c
> index e597e2ad434c..d2194b406c9e 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/core.c
> @@ -3035,6 +3035,11 @@ static int emac_probe(struct platform_device *ofdev)
>  
>  	/* Setup error IRQ handler */
>  	dev->emac_irq = platform_get_irq(ofdev, 0);
> +	if (dev->emac_irq < 0) {
> +		err = dev->emac_irq;
> +		goto err_gone;
> +	}
> +
>  	err = devm_request_irq(&ofdev->dev, dev->emac_irq, emac_irq, 0, "EMAC",
>  			       dev);
>  	if (err) {