On Tue, Sep 07, 2021 at 02:47:51PM +0200, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> backlight.h documents "struct backlight_ops->get_brightness()" to return
> a negative errno on failure.
> So far these errors have not been handled in the backlight core.
> This leads to negative values being exposed through sysfs although only
> positive values are documented to be reported.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <li...@weissschuh.net>

Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thomp...@linaro.org>


> ---
> 
> v1: 
> https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20210906215525.15418-1-li...@weissschuh.net/
> 
> v1 -> v2:
> * use dev_err() instead of dev_warn() (Daniel Thompson)
> * Finish logging format string with newline (Daniel Thompson)
> * Log errno via dedicated error pointer format (Daniel Thompson)
> 
>  drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c | 22 +++++++++++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c 
> b/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c
> index 537fe1b376ad..4658cfb75aa2 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c
> @@ -292,10 +292,13 @@ static ssize_t actual_brightness_show(struct device 
> *dev,
>       struct backlight_device *bd = to_backlight_device(dev);
>  
>       mutex_lock(&bd->ops_lock);
> -     if (bd->ops && bd->ops->get_brightness)
> -             rc = sprintf(buf, "%d\n", bd->ops->get_brightness(bd));
> -     else
> +     if (bd->ops && bd->ops->get_brightness) {
> +             rc = bd->ops->get_brightness(bd);
> +             if (rc >= 0)
> +                     rc = sprintf(buf, "%d\n", rc);
> +     } else {
>               rc = sprintf(buf, "%d\n", bd->props.brightness);
> +     }
>       mutex_unlock(&bd->ops_lock);
>  
>       return rc;
> @@ -381,9 +384,18 @@ ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS(bl_device);
>  void backlight_force_update(struct backlight_device *bd,
>                           enum backlight_update_reason reason)
>  {
> +     int brightness;
> +
>       mutex_lock(&bd->ops_lock);
> -     if (bd->ops && bd->ops->get_brightness)
> -             bd->props.brightness = bd->ops->get_brightness(bd);
> +     if (bd->ops && bd->ops->get_brightness) {
> +             brightness = bd->ops->get_brightness(bd);
> +             if (brightness >= 0)
> +                     bd->props.brightness = brightness;
> +             else
> +                     dev_err(&bd->dev,
> +                             "Could not update brightness from device: 
> %pe\n",
> +                             ERR_PTR(brightness));
> +     }
>       mutex_unlock(&bd->ops_lock);
>       backlight_generate_event(bd, reason);
>  }
> 
> base-commit: 79fad92f2e596f5a8dd085788a24f540263ef887
> -- 
> 2.33.0
> 

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