This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ics932s401: fix broken handling of errors when word reading fails
to my char-misc git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.git
in the char-misc-linus branch.
The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree
(usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)
The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the
next -rc kernel release.
If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.
>From a73b6a3b4109ce2ed01dbc51a6c1551a6431b53c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2021 15:25:34 -0700
Subject: ics932s401: fix broken handling of errors when word reading fails
In commit b05ae01fdb89, someone tried to make the driver handle i2c read
errors by simply zeroing out the register contents, but for some reason
left unaltered the code that sets the cached register value the function
call return value.
The original patch was authored by a member of the Underhanded
Mangle-happy Nerds, I'm not terribly surprised. I don't have the
hardware anymore so I can't test this, but it seems like a pretty
obvious API usage fix to me...
Fixes: b05ae01fdb89 ("misc/ics932s401: Add a missing check to i2c_smbus_read_word_data")
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210428222534.GJ3122264@magnolia
Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/misc/ics932s401.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/misc/ics932s401.c b/drivers/misc/ics932s401.c
index 2bdf560ee681..0f9ea75b0b18 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/ics932s401.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/ics932s401.c
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ static struct ics932s401_data *ics932s401_update_device(struct device *dev)
for (i = 0; i < NUM_MIRRORED_REGS; i++) {
temp = i2c_smbus_read_word_data(client, regs_to_copy[i]);
if (temp < 0)
- data->regs[regs_to_copy[i]] = 0;
+ temp = 0;
data->regs[regs_to_copy[i]] = temp >> 8;
}
--
2.31.1
