[PATCH v2] backlight: propagate errors from get_brightness()

[Thomas Weißschuh]

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 <linux at weissschuh.net>
---

v1: https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20210906215525.15418-1-linux@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