Re: [PATCH] iio: gyro: itg3200: Fix unchecked return value in read_raw

[Jonathan Cameron]

On Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:53:22 +0200
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 29, 2026 at 05:01:45PM +0200, Antoniu Miclaus wrote:
> > The return value from itg3200_read_reg_s16() is stored in ret but
> > never checked. The function unconditionally returns IIO_VAL_INT,
> > ignoring potential I2C read failures. This causes garbage data to
> > be returned to userspace when the read fails, with no error reported.  
> 
> > Add proper error checking to propagate the failure to callers.  
> 
> Yeah, but when it's not a series do not use --thread!
> (P.S. do not resend, it's for the future now)
> 
> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
Applied this patch to the togreg branch of iio.git (given nearness
of merge window) and marked for stable.