linux-kernel - [PATCH] gpiolib: devprop: Warn if gpio-line-names is too long

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Date:   Thu, 23 Apr 2020 13:34:16 -0700
From:   Stephen Boyd <swboyd@...omium.org>
To:     Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org,
        Alexandru M Stan <amstan@...omium.org>
Subject: [PATCH] gpiolib: devprop: Warn if gpio-line-names is too long

Some DT authors (including myself) have messed up the length of
gpio-line-names and made it longer than it should be. Add a warning here
so that developers can figure out that they've messed up their DT and
should fix it.

Cc: Alexandru M Stan <amstan@...omium.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@...omium.org>
---
 drivers/gpio/gpiolib-devprop.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-devprop.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-devprop.c
index 53781b253986..26741032fa9e 100644
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-devprop.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-devprop.c
@@ -37,8 +37,11 @@ void devprop_gpiochip_set_names(struct gpio_chip *chip,
 	if (count < 0)
 		return;
 
-	if (count > gdev->ngpio)
+	if (count > gdev->ngpio) {
+		dev_warn(&gdev->dev, "gpio-line-names is length %d but should be at most length %d",
+			 count, gdev->ngpio);
 		count = gdev->ngpio;
+	}
 
 	names = kcalloc(count, sizeof(*names), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!names)
-- 
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