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From: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
	Ray Jui <rjui@broadcom.com>,
	Scott Branden <sbranden@broadcom.com>,
	bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com,
	Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@i2se.com>,
	Dave Stevenson <dave.stevenson@raspberrypi.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	linux-rpi-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] soc: bcm2835: Make !RASPBERRYPI_FIRMWARE dummies return failure
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2018 12:39:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87muycw4na.fsf@anholt.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1523178315-30562-1-git-send-email-geert@linux-m68k.org>

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Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> writes:

> If CONFIG_RASPBERRYPI_FIRMWARE=n:
>
>     drivers/gpio/gpio-raspberrypi-exp.c: In function ‘rpi_exp_gpio_get_polarity’:
>     drivers/gpio/gpio-raspberrypi-exp.c:71: warning: ‘get.polarity’ is used uninitialized in this function
>     drivers/gpio/gpio-raspberrypi-exp.c: In function ‘rpi_exp_gpio_get_direction’:
>     drivers/gpio/gpio-raspberrypi-exp.c:150: warning: ‘get.direction’ is used uninitialized in this function
>
> The dummy firmware interface functions return 0, which means success,
> causing subsequent code to make use of the never initialized output
> parameter.
>
> Fix this by making the dummy functions return an error code (-ENOSYS)
> instead.
>
> Note that this assumes the firmware always fills in the requested data
> in the CONFIG_RASPBERRYPI_FIRMWARE=y case.
>
> Fixes: d45f1a563b92dac7 ("staging: vc04_services: fix up rpi firmware functions")
> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>

You should definitely not be calling these if rpi_firmware_get() failed,
so this seems like a good solution.

Reviewed-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-04-09 19:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-08  9:05 Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-04-08 11:28 ` Stefan Wahren
2018-04-09 13:26   ` Phil Elwell
2018-04-09 13:29   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-04-09 19:39 ` Eric Anholt [this message]
2018-04-13 22:11 ` Florian Fainelli

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