Currently it's possible that character device interface may return the error codes which are not supposed to be seen by user space. In this case it's EPROBE_DEFER. Wrap it to return -ENODEV instead as sysfs does. Fixes: d7c51b47ac11 ("gpio: userspace ABI for reading/writing GPIO lines") Fixes: 61f922db7221 ("gpio: userspace ABI for reading GPIO line events") Fixes: 3c0d9c635ae2 ("gpiolib: cdev: support GPIO_V2_GET_LINE_IOCTL and GPIO_V2_LINE_GET_VALUES_IOCTL") Reported-by: Suresh Balakrishnan <suresh.balakrishnan@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpio/gpiolib-cdev.c | 15 ++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-cdev.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-cdev.c index 1631727bf0da..1d8f66880d63 100644 --- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-cdev.c +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-cdev.c @@ -331,8 +331,11 @@ static int linehandle_create(struct gpio_device *gdev, void __user *ip) } ret = gpiod_request(desc, lh->label); - if (ret) + if (ret) { + if (ret == -EPROBE_DEFER) + ret = -ENODEV; goto out_free_lh; + } lh->descs[i] = desc; linehandle_flags_to_desc_flags(handlereq.flags, &desc->flags); @@ -1379,8 +1382,11 @@ static int linereq_create(struct gpio_device *gdev, void __user *ip) } ret = gpiod_request(desc, lr->label); - if (ret) + if (ret) { + if (ret == -EPROBE_DEFER) + ret = -ENODEV; goto out_free_linereq; + } lr->lines[i].desc = desc; flags = gpio_v2_line_config_flags(lc, i); @@ -1765,8 +1771,11 @@ static int lineevent_create(struct gpio_device *gdev, void __user *ip) } ret = gpiod_request(desc, le->label); - if (ret) + if (ret) { + if (ret == -EPROBE_DEFER) + ret = -ENODEV; goto out_free_le; + } le->desc = desc; le->eflags = eflags; -- 2.30.2