hwmon: (tmp421) handle I2C errors
authorPaul Fertser <fercerpav@gmail.com>
Fri, 24 Sep 2021 09:30:09 +0000 (12:30 +0300)
committerGuenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Fri, 24 Sep 2021 11:59:10 +0000 (04:59 -0700)
commit2938b2978a70d4cc10777ee71c9e512ffe4e0f4b
tree018a9374d1c95e53b6c4ba1e53a877485f5eb9e9
parente6fab7af6ba1bc77c78713a83876f60ca7a4a064
hwmon: (tmp421) handle I2C errors

Function i2c_smbus_read_byte_data() can return a negative error number
instead of the data read if I2C transaction failed for whatever reason.

Lack of error checking can lead to serious issues on production
hardware, e.g. errors treated as temperatures produce spurious critical
temperature-crossed-threshold errors in BMC logs for OCP server
hardware. The patch was tested with Mellanox OCP Mezzanine card
emulating TMP421 protocol for temperature sensing which sometimes leads
to I2C protocol error during early boot up stage.

Fixes: 9410700b881f ("hwmon: Add driver for Texas Instruments TMP421/422/423 sensor chips")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paul Fertser <fercerpav@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210924093011.26083-1-fercerpav@gmail.com
[groeck: dropped unnecessary line breaks]
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
drivers/hwmon/tmp421.c