3.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Mathias Nyman <mathias.ny...@linux.intel.com>
commit ad2fab36d7922401c4576fb7ea9b21a47a29a17f upstream.
gpios requested with invalid numbers, or gpios requested from userspace via
sysfs
should not try to be deferred on failure.
Signed-off-by: Mathias Nyman <mathias.ny...@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.wall...@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c | 10 +++++++---
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
@@ -623,9 +623,11 @@ static ssize_t export_store(struct class
*/
status = gpio_request(gpio, "sysfs");
- if (status < 0)
+ if (status < 0) {
+ if (status == -EPROBE_DEFER)
+ status = -ENODEV;
goto done;
-
+ }
status = gpio_export(gpio, true);
if (status < 0)
gpio_free(gpio);
@@ -1191,8 +1193,10 @@ int gpio_request(unsigned gpio, const ch
spin_lock_irqsave(&gpio_lock, flags);
- if (!gpio_is_valid(gpio))
+ if (!gpio_is_valid(gpio)) {
+ status = -EINVAL;
goto done;
+ }
desc = &gpio_desc[gpio];
chip = desc->chip;
if (chip == NULL)
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