The read may fail and we may not depend on v's value then. Propagate the error correctly to fix this. Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/nvmem/core.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/nvmem/core.c b/drivers/nvmem/core.c index c5fe5f6b767a..c344738abd51 100644 --- a/drivers/nvmem/core.c +++ b/drivers/nvmem/core.c @@ -591,6 +591,9 @@ static inline void *nvmem_cell_prepare_write_buffer(struct nvmem_cell *cell, /* setup the first byte with lsb bits from nvmem */ rc = nvmem->bus->read(nvmem->priv, cell->offset, &v, 1); + if (IS_ERR_VALUE(rc)) + return ERR_PTR(rc); + *b++ |= GENMASK(bit_offset - 1, 0) & v; /* setup rest of the byte if any */ @@ -609,6 +612,9 @@ static inline void *nvmem_cell_prepare_write_buffer(struct nvmem_cell *cell, /* setup the last byte with msb bits from nvmem */ rc = nvmem->bus->read(nvmem->priv, cell->offset + cell->bytes - 1, &v, 1); + if (IS_ERR_VALUE(rc)) + return ERR_PTR(rc); + *p |= GENMASK(7, (nbits + bit_offset) % BITS_PER_BYTE) & v; } -- 2.30.2