linux-kernel - [PATCH] gpiolib: Fix return value of gpio_to

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Message-Id: <1544089549-23629-1-git-send-email-krzk@kernel.org>
Date:   Thu,  6 Dec 2018 10:45:49 +0100
From:   Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>
To:     Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>,
        Janusz Krzysztofik <jmkrzyszt@...il.com>,
        linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] gpiolib: Fix return value of gpio_to_desc() stub if !GPIOLIB

If CONFIG_GPOILIB is not set, the stub of gpio_to_desc() should return
the same type of error as regular version: NULL.  All the callers
compare the return value of gpio_to_desc() against NULL, so returned
ERR_PTR would be treated as non-error case leading to dereferencing of
error value.

Fixes: 79a9becda894 ("gpiolib: export descriptor-based GPIO interface")
Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>
---
 include/linux/gpio/consumer.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/gpio/consumer.h b/include/linux/gpio/consumer.h
index ed070512b40e..3b01fbcafc94 100644
--- a/include/linux/gpio/consumer.h
+++ b/include/linux/gpio/consumer.h
@@ -505,7 +505,7 @@ static inline int gpiod_set_consumer_name(struct gpio_desc *desc,
 
 static inline struct gpio_desc *gpio_to_desc(unsigned gpio)
 {
-	return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+	return NULL;
 }
 
 static inline int desc_to_gpio(const struct gpio_desc *desc)
-- 
2.7.4