linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] driver core: platform: return -ENXIO for missing GpioInt

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Date:   Mon, 29 Jul 2019 13:57:26 -0700
From:   Enrico Granata <egranata@...gle.com>
To:     Brian Norris <briannorris@...omium.org>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Salvatore Bellizzi <salvatore.bellizzi@...ux.seppia.net>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>,
        Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
        Enrico Granata <egranata@...omium.org>,
        Enric Balletbo i Serra <enric.balletbo@...labora.com>,
        Gwendal Grignou <gwendal@...omium.org>,
        ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
        Benson Leung <bleung@...omium.org>, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver core: platform: return -ENXIO for missing GpioInt

On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 1:50 PM Brian Norris <briannorris@...omium.org> wrote:
>
> Commit daaef255dc96 ("driver: platform: Support parsing GpioInt 0 in
> platform_get_irq()") broke the Embedded Controller driver on most LPC
> Chromebooks (i.e., most x86 Chromebooks), because cros_ec_lpc expects
> platform_get_irq() to return -ENXIO for non-existent IRQs.
> Unfortunately, acpi_dev_gpio_irq_get() doesn't follow this convention
> and returns -ENOENT instead. So we get this error from cros_ec_lpc:
>
>    couldn't retrieve IRQ number (-2)
>
> I see a variety of drivers that treat -ENXIO specially, so rather than
> fix all of them, let's fix up the API to restore its previous behavior.
>
> I reported this on v2 of this patch:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190220180538.GA42642@google.com/
>
> but apparently the patch had already been merged before v3 got sent out:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190221193429.161300-1-egranata@chromium.org/
>
> and the result is that the bug landed and remains unfixed.
>
> I differ from the v3 patch by:
>  * allowing for ret==0, even though acpi_dev_gpio_irq_get() specifically
>    documents (and enforces) that 0 is not a valid return value (noted on
>    the v3 review)
>  * adding a small comment
>
> Reported-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@...omium.org>
> Reported-by: Salvatore Bellizzi <salvatore.bellizzi@...ux.seppia.net>
> Cc: Enrico Granata <egranata@...omium.org>
> Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>
> Fixes: daaef255dc96 ("driver: platform: Support parsing GpioInt 0 in platform_get_irq()")
> Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@...omium.org>
> ---
> Side note: it might have helped alleviate some of this pain if there
> were email notifications to the mailing list when a patch gets applied.
> I didn't realize (and I'm not sure if Enrico did) that v2 was already
> merged by the time I noted its mistakes. If I had known, I would have
> suggested a follow-up patch, not a v3.
>
> I know some maintainers' "tip bots" do this, but not all apparently.
>
>  drivers/base/platform.c | 9 +++++++--
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/base/platform.c b/drivers/base/platform.c
> index 506a0175a5a7..ec974ba9c0c4 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/platform.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/platform.c
> @@ -157,8 +157,13 @@ int platform_get_irq(struct platform_device *dev, unsigned int num)
>          * the device will only expose one IRQ, and this fallback
>          * allows a common code path across either kind of resource.
>          */
> -       if (num == 0 && has_acpi_companion(&dev->dev))
> -               return acpi_dev_gpio_irq_get(ACPI_COMPANION(&dev->dev), num);
> +       if (num == 0 && has_acpi_companion(&dev->dev)) {
> +               int ret = acpi_dev_gpio_irq_get(ACPI_COMPANION(&dev->dev), num);
> +
> +               /* Our callers expect -ENXIO for missing IRQs. */
> +               if (ret >= 0 || ret == -EPROBE_DEFER)
> +                       return ret;
> +       }
>
>         return -ENXIO;
>  #endif
> --
> 2.22.0.709.g102302147b-goog
>

Acked-by: Enrico Granata <egranata@...gle.com>