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: a26c20b1fa6d ("i2c: Renesas SH7760 I2C master driver") Signed-off-by: Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Changes in version 2: - new patch. drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-sh7760.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-sh7760.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-sh7760.c +++ linux/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-sh7760.c @@ -471,7 +471,10 @@ static int sh7760_i2c_probe(struct platf goto out2; } - id->irq = platform_get_irq(pdev, 0); + ret = platform_get_irq(pdev, 0); + if (ret < 0) + return ret; + id->irq = ret; id->adap.nr = pdev->id; id->adap.algo = &sh7760_i2c_algo;