Re: [PATCH] usb: ehci-omap: fix error return code in ehci_hcd_omap_probe()

From: Alan Stern
Date: Wed Aug 09 2017 - 10:03:35 EST


On Tue, 8 Aug 2017, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:

> platform_get_irq() returns an error code, but the ehci-omap driver
> ignores it and always returns -ENODEV. This is not correct and,
> prevents -EPROBE_DEFER from being propagated properly.
>
> Also, notice that platform_get_irq() no longer returns 0 on error:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=e330b9a6bb35dc7097a4f02cb1ae7b6f96df92af
>
> Print and propagate the return value of platform_get_irq on failure.
>
> This issue was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/usb/host/ehci-omap.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/host/ehci-omap.c b/drivers/usb/host/ehci-omap.c
> index 94ea9ff..4d30853 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/host/ehci-omap.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/host/ehci-omap.c
> @@ -130,8 +130,8 @@ static int ehci_hcd_omap_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>
> irq = platform_get_irq(pdev, 0);
> if (irq < 0) {
> - dev_err(dev, "EHCI irq failed\n");
> - return -ENODEV;
> + dev_err(dev, "EHCI irq failed: %d\n", irq);
> + return irq;
> }
>
> res = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, 0);

Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>