The fb_deferred_io_init() can fail and return an errno code but currently there is no check for its return value. Fix that and propagate to errno to the caller in the case of a failure. Fixes: d536540f304c ("drm/fb-helper: Add generic fbdev emulation .fb_probe function") Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx> --- (no changes since v1) drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fbdev_generic.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fbdev_generic.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fbdev_generic.c index 0a4c160e0e58..b2df8c03594c 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fbdev_generic.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fbdev_generic.c @@ -223,7 +223,9 @@ static int drm_fbdev_fb_probe(struct drm_fb_helper *fb_helper, fbi->flags |= FBINFO_VIRTFB | FBINFO_READS_FAST; fbi->fbdefio = &drm_fbdev_defio; - fb_deferred_io_init(fbi); + ret = fb_deferred_io_init(fbi); + if (ret) + return ret; } else { /* buffer is mapped for HW framebuffer */ ret = drm_client_buffer_vmap(fb_helper->buffer, &map); -- 2.39.0