gpiolib: don't check the retval of get_direction() when registering a chip

During chip registration we should neither check the return value of
gc->get_direction() nor hold the SRCU lock when calling it. The former
is because pin controllers may have pins set to alternate functions and
return errors from their get_direction() callbacks. That's alright - we
should default to the safe INPUT state and not bail-out. The latter is
not needed because we haven't registered the chip yet so there's nothing
to protect against dynamic removal. In fact: we currently hit a lockdep
splat. Revert to calling the gc->get_direction() callback directly and
*not* checking its value.

Fixes: 9d846b1aebbe ("gpiolib: check the return value of gpio_chip::get_direction()")
Reported-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/81f890fc-6688-42f0-9756-567efc8bb97a@samsung.com/
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250226-retval-fixes-v2-1-c8dc57182441@linaro.org
Tested-by: Gene C <arch@sapience.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250311175631.83779-1-brgl@bgdev.pl
Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>

diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
index 8741600af7efb0a258f67fcf4c495a663016a34a..de708d0818581174130ec9a581a28b0d92610f67 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
@@ -1056,24 +1056,19 @@ int gpiochip_add_data_with_key(struct gpio_chip *gc, void *data,
 
                desc->gdev = gdev;
 
-               if (gc->get_direction && gpiochip_line_is_valid(gc, desc_index)) {
-                       ret = gc->get_direction(gc, desc_index);
-                       if (ret < 0)
-                               /*
-                                * FIXME: Bail-out here once all GPIO drivers
-                                * are updated to not return errors in
-                                * situations that can be considered normal
-                                * operation.
-                                */
-                               dev_warn(&gdev->dev,
-                                        "%s: get_direction failed: %d\n",
-                                        __func__, ret);
-
-                       assign_bit(FLAG_IS_OUT, &desc->flags, !ret);
-               } else {
+               /*
+                * We would typically want to check the return value of
+                * get_direction() here but we must not check the return value
+                * and bail-out as pin controllers can have pins configured to
+                * alternate functions and return -EINVAL. Also: there's no
+                * need to take the SRCU lock here.
+                */
+               if (gc->get_direction && gpiochip_line_is_valid(gc, desc_index))
+                       assign_bit(FLAG_IS_OUT, &desc->flags,
+                                  !gc->get_direction(gc, desc_index));
+               else
                        assign_bit(FLAG_IS_OUT,
                                   &desc->flags, !gc->direction_input);
-               }
        }
 
        ret = of_gpiochip_add(gc);