Re: [PATCH v2] extcon: fix extcon_get_extcon_dev() error handling

[Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@samsung.com>]

Hi Dan,

First of all,  sorry for late reply.

There is one issue. About this issue, I already discussed on patch[1]
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/5BEB63C3.1020504@samsung.com/

extcon_get_extcon_dev() is used for anywhere except for probe step.
But EPROBE_DEFER is only used on probe step.

So that it is not clear to return EPROBE_DEFER from extcon_get_extcon_dev()
because extcon_get_extcon_dev() never know either call it on probe function
or not.


On 11/23/21 5:43 PM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> The extcon_get_extcon_dev() function returns error pointers on error,
> NULL when it's a -EPROBE_DEFER defer situation, and ERR_PTR(-ENODEV)
> when the CONFIG_EXTCON option is disabled.  This is very complicated for
> the callers to handle and a number of them had bugs that would lead to
> an Oops.
> 
> In real life, there are two things which prevented crashes.  First,
> error pointers would only be returned if there was bug in the caller
> where they passed a NULL "extcon_name" and none of them do that.
> Second, only two out of the eight drivers will build when CONFIG_EXTCON
> is disabled.
> 
> The normal way to write this would be to return -EPROBE_DEFER directly
> when appropriate and return NULL when CONFIG_EXTCON is disabled.  Then
> the error handling is simple and just looks like:
> 
> 	dev->edev = extcon_get_extcon_dev(acpi_dev_name(adev));
> 	if (IS_ERR(dev->edev))
> 		return PTR_ERR(dev->edev);
> 
> For the two drivers which can build with CONFIG_EXTCON disabled, then
> extcon_get_extcon_dev() will now return NULL which is not treated as an
> error and the probe will continue successfully.  Those two drivers are
> "typec_fusb302" and "max8997-battery".  In the original code, the
> typec_fusb302 driver had an 800ms hang in tcpm_get_current_limit() but
> now that function is a no-op.  For the max8997-battery driver everything
> should continue working as is.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> ---
> v2: return NULL when CONFIG_EXTCON is disabled
> 
> If we apply this patch, it might be a good idea to send it to -stable
> so that backported code that relies on handling error pointers does
> not break silently.
> 
>  drivers/extcon/extcon-axp288.c         |    4 ++--
>  drivers/extcon/extcon.c                |    2 +-
>  drivers/power/supply/axp288_charger.c  |   17 ++++++++++-------
>  drivers/power/supply/charger-manager.c |    7 ++-----
>  drivers/power/supply/max8997_charger.c |   10 +++++-----
>  drivers/usb/dwc3/drd.c                 |    9 ++-------
>  drivers/usb/phy/phy-omap-otg.c         |    4 ++--
>  drivers/usb/typec/tcpm/fusb302.c       |    4 ++--
>  include/linux/extcon.h                 |    2 +-
>  9 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/extcon/extcon.c b/drivers/extcon/extcon.c
> index e7a9561a826d..a35e99928807 100644
> --- a/drivers/extcon/extcon.c
> +++ b/drivers/extcon/extcon.c
> @@ -876,7 +876,7 @@ struct extcon_dev *extcon_get_extcon_dev(const char *extcon_name)
>  		if (!strcmp(sd->name, extcon_name))
>  			goto out;
>  	}
> -	sd = NULL;
> +	sd = ERR_PTR(-EPROBE_DEFER);
>  out:
>  	mutex_unlock(&extcon_dev_list_lock);
>  	return sd;
> diff --git a/include/linux/extcon.h b/include/linux/extcon.h
> index 0c19010da77f..685401d94d39 100644
> --- a/include/linux/extcon.h
> +++ b/include/linux/extcon.h
> @@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ static inline void devm_extcon_unregister_notifier_all(struct device *dev,
>  
>  static inline struct extcon_dev *extcon_get_extcon_dev(const char *extcon_name)
>  {
> -	return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
> +	return NULL;
>  }
>  
>  static inline struct extcon_dev *extcon_find_edev_by_node(struct device_node *node)
> diff --git a/drivers/extcon/extcon-axp288.c b/drivers/extcon/extcon-axp288.c
> index 7c6d5857ff25..180be768c215 100644
> --- a/drivers/extcon/extcon-axp288.c
> +++ b/drivers/extcon/extcon-axp288.c
> @@ -394,8 +394,8 @@ static int axp288_extcon_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  		if (adev) {
>  			info->id_extcon = extcon_get_extcon_dev(acpi_dev_name(adev));
>  			put_device(&adev->dev);
> -			if (!info->id_extcon)
> -				return -EPROBE_DEFER;
> +			if (IS_ERR(info->id_extcon))
> +				return PTR_ERR(info->id_extcon);
>  
>  			dev_info(dev, "controlling USB role\n");
>  		} else {
> diff --git a/drivers/power/supply/axp288_charger.c b/drivers/power/supply/axp288_charger.c
> index ec41f6cd3f93..4acfeb52a44e 100644
> --- a/drivers/power/supply/axp288_charger.c
> +++ b/drivers/power/supply/axp288_charger.c
> @@ -848,17 +848,20 @@ static int axp288_charger_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  	info->regmap_irqc = axp20x->regmap_irqc;
>  
>  	info->cable.edev = extcon_get_extcon_dev(AXP288_EXTCON_DEV_NAME);
> -	if (info->cable.edev == NULL) {
> -		dev_dbg(dev, "%s is not ready, probe deferred\n",
> -			AXP288_EXTCON_DEV_NAME);
> -		return -EPROBE_DEFER;
> +	if (IS_ERR(info->cable.edev)) {
> +		dev_err_probe(dev, PTR_ERR(info->cable.edev),
> +			      "extcon_get_extcon_dev(%s) failed\n",
> +			      AXP288_EXTCON_DEV_NAME);
> +		return PTR_ERR(info->cable.edev);
>  	}
>  
>  	if (acpi_dev_present(USB_HOST_EXTCON_HID, NULL, -1)) {
>  		info->otg.cable = extcon_get_extcon_dev(USB_HOST_EXTCON_NAME);
> -		if (info->otg.cable == NULL) {
> -			dev_dbg(dev, "EXTCON_USB_HOST is not ready, probe deferred\n");
> -			return -EPROBE_DEFER;
> +		if (IS_ERR(info->otg.cable)) {
> +			dev_err_probe(dev, PTR_ERR(info->otg.cable),
> +				      "extcon_get_extcon_dev(%s) failed\n",
> +				      USB_HOST_EXTCON_NAME);
> +			return PTR_ERR(info->otg.cable);
>  		}
>  		dev_info(dev, "Using " USB_HOST_EXTCON_HID " extcon for usb-id\n");
>  	}
> diff --git a/drivers/power/supply/charger-manager.c b/drivers/power/supply/charger-manager.c
> index d67edb760c94..92db79400a6a 100644
> --- a/drivers/power/supply/charger-manager.c
> +++ b/drivers/power/supply/charger-manager.c
> @@ -985,13 +985,10 @@ static int charger_extcon_init(struct charger_manager *cm,
>  	cable->nb.notifier_call = charger_extcon_notifier;
>  
>  	cable->extcon_dev = extcon_get_extcon_dev(cable->extcon_name);
> -	if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(cable->extcon_dev)) {
> +	if (IS_ERR(cable->extcon_dev)) {
>  		pr_err("Cannot find extcon_dev for %s (cable: %s)\n",
>  			cable->extcon_name, cable->name);
> -		if (cable->extcon_dev == NULL)
> -			return -EPROBE_DEFER;
> -		else
> -			return PTR_ERR(cable->extcon_dev);
> +		return PTR_ERR(cable->extcon_dev);
>  	}
>  
>  	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(extcon_mapping); i++) {
> diff --git a/drivers/power/supply/max8997_charger.c b/drivers/power/supply/max8997_charger.c
> index 25207fe2aa68..634658adf313 100644
> --- a/drivers/power/supply/max8997_charger.c
> +++ b/drivers/power/supply/max8997_charger.c
> @@ -248,13 +248,13 @@ static int max8997_battery_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  		dev_info(&pdev->dev, "couldn't get charger regulator\n");
>  	}
>  	charger->edev = extcon_get_extcon_dev("max8997-muic");
> -	if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(charger->edev)) {
> -		if (!charger->edev)
> -			return -EPROBE_DEFER;
> -		dev_info(charger->dev, "couldn't get extcon device\n");
> +	if (IS_ERR(charger->edev)) {
> +		dev_err_probe(charger->dev, PTR_ERR(charger->edev),
> +			      "couldn't get extcon device: max8997-muic\n");
> +		return PTR_ERR(charger->edev);
>  	}
>  
> -	if (!IS_ERR(charger->reg) && !IS_ERR_OR_NULL(charger->edev)) {
> +	if (!IS_ERR(charger->reg)) {
>  		INIT_WORK(&charger->extcon_work, max8997_battery_extcon_evt_worker);
>  		ret = devm_add_action(&pdev->dev, max8997_battery_extcon_evt_stop_work, charger);
>  		if (ret) {
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/dwc3/drd.c b/drivers/usb/dwc3/drd.c
> index d7f76835137f..a490f79131c1 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/dwc3/drd.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/dwc3/drd.c
> @@ -454,13 +454,8 @@ static struct extcon_dev *dwc3_get_extcon(struct dwc3 *dwc)
>  	 * This device property is for kernel internal use only and
>  	 * is expected to be set by the glue code.
>  	 */
> -	if (device_property_read_string(dev, "linux,extcon-name", &name) == 0) {
> -		edev = extcon_get_extcon_dev(name);
> -		if (!edev)
> -			return ERR_PTR(-EPROBE_DEFER);
> -
> -		return edev;
> -	}
> +	if (device_property_read_string(dev, "linux,extcon-name", &name) == 0)
> +		return extcon_get_extcon_dev(name);
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * Try to get an extcon device from the USB PHY controller's "port"
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/phy/phy-omap-otg.c b/drivers/usb/phy/phy-omap-otg.c
> index ee0863c6553e..6e6ef8c0bc7e 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/phy/phy-omap-otg.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/phy/phy-omap-otg.c
> @@ -95,8 +95,8 @@ static int omap_otg_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  		return -ENODEV;
>  
>  	extcon = extcon_get_extcon_dev(config->extcon);
> -	if (!extcon)
> -		return -EPROBE_DEFER;
> +	if (IS_ERR(extcon))
> +		return PTR_ERR(extcon);
>  
>  	otg_dev = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*otg_dev), GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!otg_dev)
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/typec/tcpm/fusb302.c b/drivers/usb/typec/tcpm/fusb302.c
> index 72f9001b0792..96c55eaf3f80 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/typec/tcpm/fusb302.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/typec/tcpm/fusb302.c
> @@ -1708,8 +1708,8 @@ static int fusb302_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
>  	 */
>  	if (device_property_read_string(dev, "linux,extcon-name", &name) == 0) {
>  		chip->extcon = extcon_get_extcon_dev(name);
> -		if (!chip->extcon)
> -			return -EPROBE_DEFER;
> +		if (IS_ERR(chip->extcon))
> +			return PTR_ERR(chip->extcon);
>  	}
>  
>  	chip->vbus = devm_regulator_get(chip->dev, "vbus");
> 
> 
> 


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Best Regards,
Chanwoo Choi
Samsung Electronics