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    Subject[PATCH AUTOSEL for 4.9 159/281] backlight: Report error on failure
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    From: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>

    [ Upstream commit 7e715c2d9c27c23f3187454157c58cf292ed103e ]

    It is possible to update the backlight power and the brightness using
    the sysfs and on writing it either returns the count or if the callback
    function does not exist then returns the error code 'ENXIO'.

    We have a situation where the userspace client is writing to the sysfs
    to update the power and since the callback function exists the client
    receives the return value as count and considers the operation to be
    successful. That is correct as the write to the sysfs was successful.
    But there is no way to know if the actual operation was done or not.

    backlight_update_status() returns the error code if it fails. Pass that
    to the userspace client who is trying to update the power so that the
    client knows that the operation failed.

    Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip.mukherjee@codethink.co.uk>
    Acked-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
    Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
    Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
    ---
    drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c | 15 ++++++++++-----
    1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

    diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c b/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c
    index 288318ad21dd..8049e7656daa 100644
    --- a/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c
    +++ b/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c
    @@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ static ssize_t bl_power_store(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
    {
    int rc;
    struct backlight_device *bd = to_backlight_device(dev);
    - unsigned long power;
    + unsigned long power, old_power;

    rc = kstrtoul(buf, 0, &power);
    if (rc)
    @@ -145,10 +145,16 @@ static ssize_t bl_power_store(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
    if (bd->ops) {
    pr_debug("set power to %lu\n", power);
    if (bd->props.power != power) {
    + old_power = bd->props.power;
    bd->props.power = power;
    - backlight_update_status(bd);
    + rc = backlight_update_status(bd);
    + if (rc)
    + bd->props.power = old_power;
    + else
    + rc = count;
    + } else {
    + rc = count;
    }
    - rc = count;
    }
    mutex_unlock(&bd->ops_lock);

    @@ -176,8 +182,7 @@ int backlight_device_set_brightness(struct backlight_device *bd,
    else {
    pr_debug("set brightness to %lu\n", brightness);
    bd->props.brightness = brightness;
    - backlight_update_status(bd);
    - rc = 0;
    + rc = backlight_update_status(bd);
    }
    }
    mutex_unlock(&bd->ops_lock);
    --
    2.14.1
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