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: b5b5b32081cd ("i2c: mlxbf: I2C SMBus driver for Mellanox BlueField SoC") Signed-off-by: Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Changes in version 2: - new patch. drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-mlxbf.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) Index: linux/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-mlxbf.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-mlxbf.c +++ linux/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-mlxbf.c @@ -2376,6 +2376,8 @@ static int mlxbf_i2c_probe(struct platfo mlxbf_i2c_init_slave(pdev, priv); irq = platform_get_irq(pdev, 0); + if (irq < 0) + return irq; ret = devm_request_irq(dev, irq, mlxbf_smbus_irq, IRQF_ONESHOT | IRQF_SHARED | IRQF_PROBE_SHARED, dev_name(dev), priv);