[PATCH v5 1/4] pps: clients: gpio: propagate probe error codes
From: Eliav Farber
Date: Tue Sep 22 2026 - 06:32:39 EST
On the two probe error paths that map and request the interrupt, probe
overwrote the error from gpiod_to_irq() and request_threaded_irq() with a
hardcoded -EINVAL, hiding meaningful codes such as -EBUSY, -ENOMEM or
-EPROBE_DEFER from the caller. The request_threaded_irq() failure message
also logged the IRQ number but not the errno.
Switch both paths to dev_err_probe() so the actual error code is returned
and logged symbolically, and so a repeated -EPROBE_DEFER during boot is
logged at debug level rather than spamming the console. This also matches
pps_gpio_setup() in the same file, which already uses dev_err_probe().
Fixes: 161520451dfa ("pps: new client driver using GPIO")
Signed-off-by: Eliav Farber <farbere@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes in v5:
- Use dev_err_probe() on both error paths instead of dev_err() + return,
so a propagated -EPROBE_DEFER is logged at debug level (no console spam
on repeated deferral) and the code is emitted symbolically. This also
matches pps_gpio_setup() in the same file. Drop Bartosz Golaszewski's
Reviewed-by as the patch changed materially
Changes in v4:
- Add Fixes: 161520451dfa ("pps: new client driver using GPIO") and
Bartosz Golaszewski's Reviewed-by. The hardcoded -EINVAL on both error
paths predates 4461d65176b4 (which only switched gpio_to_irq() to
gpiod_to_irq() and left those returns as context), so the tag points at
the original driver rather than the descriptor conversion
Changes in v3:
- New patch, split out of the pinctrl change: while converting the probe
error paths to a goto, Takashi Sakamoto noted that the hardcoded -EINVAL
discards the real gpiod_to_irq()/request_threaded_irq() error, so fix
that separately first
drivers/pps/clients/pps-gpio.c | 10 ++++------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/pps/clients/pps-gpio.c b/drivers/pps/clients/pps-gpio.c
index 73ec2c7335e5..ccc2fb470b7e 100644
--- a/drivers/pps/clients/pps-gpio.c
+++ b/drivers/pps/clients/pps-gpio.c
@@ -163,10 +163,8 @@ static int pps_gpio_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
/* IRQ setup */
ret = gpiod_to_irq(data->gpio_pin);
- if (ret < 0) {
- dev_err(dev, "failed to map GPIO to IRQ: %d\n", ret);
- return -EINVAL;
- }
+ if (ret < 0)
+ return dev_err_probe(dev, ret, "failed to map GPIO to IRQ\n");
data->irq = ret;
/* initialize PPS specific parts of the bookkeeping data structure. */
@@ -197,8 +195,8 @@ static int pps_gpio_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
data->info.name, data);
if (ret) {
pps_unregister_source(data->pps);
- dev_err(dev, "failed to acquire IRQ %d\n", data->irq);
- return -EINVAL;
+ return dev_err_probe(dev, ret, "failed to acquire IRQ %d\n",
+ data->irq);
}
dev_dbg(&data->pps->dev, "Registered IRQ %d as PPS source\n",
--
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