The driver neglects to check the result of platform_get_irq()'s call and blithely passes the negative error codes to devm_request_irq() (which takes *unsigned* IRQ #), causing it to fail with -EINVAL, overriding an original error code. Stop calling devm_request_irq() with invalid IRQ #s. Fixes: ba92222ed63a ("i2c: jz4780: Add i2c bus controller driver for Ingenic JZ4780") Signed-off-by: Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Changes in version 2: - new patch. drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-jz4780.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-jz4780.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-jz4780.c +++ linux/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-jz4780.c @@ -825,7 +825,10 @@ static int jz4780_i2c_probe(struct platf jz4780_i2c_writew(i2c, JZ4780_I2C_INTM, 0x0); - i2c->irq = platform_get_irq(pdev, 0); + ret = platform_get_irq(pdev, 0); + if (ret < 0) + goto err; + i2c->irq = ret; ret = devm_request_irq(&pdev->dev, i2c->irq, jz4780_i2c_irq, 0, dev_name(&pdev->dev), i2c); if (ret)