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char: misc: Fix improper and inaccurate error code returned by misc_init()
authorZijun Hu <zijun.hu@oss.qualcomm.com>
Fri, 20 Jun 2025 14:35:20 +0000 (22:35 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 20 Aug 2025 16:41:01 +0000 (18:41 +0200)
commitaba0d3f8845c5b101469fbca87032c909ce42955
treec7fcab443dbb0c6e2329a01d148db148ca933d3a
parente88695515ea9d7514f52e9439b49d6ab399bc26c
char: misc: Fix improper and inaccurate error code returned by misc_init()

[ Upstream commit 0ef1fe4bc38673db72e39b700b29c50dfcc5a415 ]

misc_init() returns -EIO for __register_chrdev() invocation failure, but:

- -EIO is for I/O error normally, but __register_chrdev() does not do I/O.
- -EIO can not cover various error codes returned by __register_chrdev().

Fix by returning error code of __register_chrdev().

Signed-off-by: Zijun Hu <zijun.hu@oss.qualcomm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250620-fix_mischar-v1-3-6c2716bbf1fa@oss.qualcomm.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
drivers/char/misc.c