gpio: pca953x: do not ignore i2c errors
authorAndrey Gusakov <andrey.gusakov@cogentembedded.com>
Thu, 23 Sep 2021 17:22:16 +0000 (20:22 +0300)
committerBartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>
Wed, 29 Sep 2021 18:40:15 +0000 (20:40 +0200)
Per gpio_chip interface, error shall be proparated to the caller.

Attempt to silent diagnostics by returning zero (as written in the
comment) is plain wrong, because the zero return can be interpreted by
the caller as the gpio value.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Andrey Gusakov <andrey.gusakov@cogentembedded.com>
Signed-off-by: Nikita Yushchenko <nikita.yoush@cogentembedded.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>
drivers/gpio/gpio-pca953x.c

index f5cfc06..8ebf369 100644 (file)
@@ -468,15 +468,8 @@ static int pca953x_gpio_get_value(struct gpio_chip *gc, unsigned off)
        mutex_lock(&chip->i2c_lock);
        ret = regmap_read(chip->regmap, inreg, &reg_val);
        mutex_unlock(&chip->i2c_lock);
-       if (ret < 0) {
-               /*
-                * NOTE:
-                * diagnostic already emitted; that's all we should
-                * do unless gpio_*_value_cansleep() calls become different
-                * from their nonsleeping siblings (and report faults).
-                */
-               return 0;
-       }
+       if (ret < 0)
+               return ret;
 
        return !!(reg_val & bit);
 }