Zijun Hu a29868db6d 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>
2025-08-28 16:28:18 +02:00
2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
2025-08-15 12:09:09 +02:00

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