If CONFIG_GPOILIB is not set, the stub of gpio_to_desc() should return the same type of error as regular version: NULL. All the callers compare the return value of gpio_to_desc() against NULL, so returned ERR_PTR would be treated as non-error case leading to dereferencing of error value.
Fixes: 79a9becda894 ("gpiolib: export descriptor-based GPIO interface") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski krzk@kernel.org --- include/linux/gpio/consumer.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/gpio/consumer.h b/include/linux/gpio/consumer.h index ed070512b40e..3b01fbcafc94 100644 --- a/include/linux/gpio/consumer.h +++ b/include/linux/gpio/consumer.h @@ -505,7 +505,7 @@ static inline int gpiod_set_consumer_name(struct gpio_desc *desc,
static inline struct gpio_desc *gpio_to_desc(unsigned gpio) { - return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); + return NULL; }
static inline int desc_to_gpio(const struct gpio_desc *desc)