Re: [PATCH] gpiolib: Fix return value of gpio_to_desc() stub if !GPIOLIB

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Fri Dec 14 2018 - 10:06:33 EST


On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 10:45 AM Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@xxxxxxxxxx>

Patch applied. I kept the Fixes but removed stable, I do not know
of any regression it is fixing.

Yours,
Linus Walleij