linux/include
Dan Carpenter 58e4a2d27d extcon: Fix extcon_get_extcon_dev() error handling
The extcon_get_extcon_dev() function returns error pointers on error,
NULL when it's a -EPROBE_DEFER defer situation, and ERR_PTR(-ENODEV)
when the CONFIG_EXTCON option is disabled.  This is very complicated for
the callers to handle and a number of them had bugs that would lead to
an Oops.

In real life, there are two things which prevented crashes.  First,
error pointers would only be returned if there was bug in the caller
where they passed a NULL "extcon_name" and none of them do that.
Second, only two out of the eight drivers will build when CONFIG_EXTCON
is disabled.

The normal way to write this would be to return -EPROBE_DEFER directly
when appropriate and return NULL when CONFIG_EXTCON is disabled.  Then
the error handling is simple and just looks like:

	dev->edev = extcon_get_extcon_dev(acpi_dev_name(adev));
	if (IS_ERR(dev->edev))
		return PTR_ERR(dev->edev);

For the two drivers which can build with CONFIG_EXTCON disabled, then
extcon_get_extcon_dev() will now return NULL which is not treated as an
error and the probe will continue successfully.  Those two drivers are
"typec_fusb302" and "max8997-battery".  In the original code, the
typec_fusb302 driver had an 800ms hang in tcpm_get_current_limit() but
now that function is a no-op.  For the max8997-battery driver everything
should continue working as is.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Acked-by: Sebastian Reichel <sebastian.reichel@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@samsung.com>
2022-05-13 17:03:40 +09:00
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acpi ACPI: bus: Eliminate acpi_bus_get_device() 2022-04-05 19:49:26 +02:00
asm-generic bug: Have __warn() prototype defined unconditionally 2022-04-26 10:59:57 +02:00
clocksource
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2022-03-21 16:02:36 -07:00
drm
dt-bindings dt-bindings: clk: mpfs: add defines for two new clocks 2022-04-22 18:40:15 -07:00
keys
kunit
kvm
linux extcon: Fix extcon_get_extcon_dev() error handling 2022-05-13 17:03:40 +09:00
math-emu
media
memory memory: renesas-rpc-if: Fix HF/OSPI data transfer in Manual Mode 2022-04-21 17:00:24 +02:00
misc
net bluetooth pull request for net: 2022-04-28 10:18:51 +02:00
pcmcia
ras mm/memory-failure.c: fix race with changing page compound again 2022-03-22 15:57:07 -07:00
rdma
scsi scsi: iscsi: Fix NOP handling during conn recovery 2022-04-11 22:09:35 -04:00
soc drm for 5.18-rc1 2022-03-24 16:19:43 -07:00
sound ASoC: Fixes for v5.18 2022-04-19 17:26:01 +02:00
target
trace NFSD bug fixes for 5.18-rc: 2022-04-12 14:23:19 -10:00
uapi ARM: 2022-05-01 11:49:32 -07:00
vdso
video
xen