leds: pca9532: Fix phantom device registration on missing hardware

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The initial PWM and PSC register writes in pca9532_configure() do not
check the return values of i2c_smbus_write_byte_data(). If the I2C
device is physically absent from the bus, the write fails with -ENXIO.
However, the driver ignores this error and allows probe() to complete
successfully.

This results in the registration of phantom LED class devices and
gpiochips backed by non-existent hardware. Subsequent GPIO reads from
these phantom chips return bogus values (due to -ENXIO being truncated
to an unsigned char in pca9532_gpio_get_value()), silently corrupting
hardware state tracking in userspace.

Propagate the I2C write failures back to probe() so the driver core
can gracefully abort binding and release devres-managed resources.

Fixes: e14fa82439 ("leds: Add pca9532 led driver")
Signed-off-by: Cosmo Chou <chou.cosmo@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@oss.qualcomm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260715080747.1638097-1-chou.cosmo@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>

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Cosmo Chou 2026-07-15 16:07:47 +08:00 • committed by Lee Jones

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