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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
arch ARM: 2022-05-01 11:49:32 -07:00
block bfq: Fix warning in bfqq_request_over_limit() 2022-04-29 06:45:37 -06:00
certs Kbuild updates for v5.18 2022-03-31 11:59:03 -07:00
crypto for-5.18/64bit-pi-2022-03-25 2022-03-26 12:01:35 -07:00
Documentation ARM: 2022-05-01 11:49:32 -07:00
drivers extcon: Fix extcon_get_extcon_dev() error handling 2022-05-13 17:03:40 +09:00
fs Driver core fixes for 5.18-rc5 2022-04-30 10:24:21 -07:00
include extcon: Fix extcon_get_extcon_dev() error handling 2022-05-13 17:03:40 +09:00
init Kbuild updates for v5.18 2022-03-31 11:59:03 -07:00
ipc fs: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb() 2022-03-22 15:57:03 -07:00
kernel Networking fixes for 5.18-rc5, including fixes from bluetooth, bpf 2022-04-28 12:34:50 -07:00
lib - A fix to disable PCI/MSI[-X] masking for XEN_HVM guests as that is 2022-05-01 10:03:36 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers 2021-12-16 14:33:10 +01:00
mm kasan: prevent cpu_quarantine corruption when CPU offline and cache shrink occur at same time 2022-04-27 13:28:48 -07:00
net A fix for a NULL dereference that turns out to be easily triggerable 2022-04-29 14:37:35 -07:00
samples dma-mapping updates for Linux 5.18 2022-03-29 08:50:14 -07:00
scripts objtool: Enable unreachable warnings for CLANG LTO 2022-04-19 21:58:48 +02:00
security hardening updates for v5.18-rc1-fix1 2022-03-31 11:43:01 -07:00
sound ALSA: hda/realtek: Add quirk for Clevo NP70PNP 2022-04-21 21:23:47 +02:00
tools - A fix to disable PCI/MSI[-X] masking for XEN_HVM guests as that is 2022-05-01 10:03:36 -07:00
usr Kbuild updates for v5.18 2022-03-31 11:59:03 -07:00
virt Merge branch 'kvm-fixes-for-5.18-rc5' into HEAD 2022-04-29 12:39:34 -04:00
.clang-format genirq/msi: Make interrupt allocation less convoluted 2021-12-16 22:22:20 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore .gitignore: ignore only top-level modules.builtin 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
.mailmap mailmap: update Vasily Averin's email address 2022-04-08 14:20:36 -10:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: replace a Microchip AT91 maintainer 2022-02-09 11:30:01 +01:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS - A fix to disable PCI/MSI[-X] masking for XEN_HVM guests as that is 2022-05-01 10:03:36 -07:00
Makefile Linux 5.18-rc5 2022-05-01 13:57:58 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.