[PATCH] serial: goldfish: return error when device address is invalid

Naveen Kumar Chaudhary naveen.osdev at gmail.com
Sun Jun 7 17:45:42 CEST 2026


goldfish_serial_of_to_plat() returns success even when dev_read_addr()
fails to find a valid address. This leaves plat->reg unset and defers
the failure to probe().

Return -EINVAL immediately when the address is FDT_ADDR_T_NONE so the
failure is reported at the of_to_plat stage where it belongs.

Signed-off-by: Naveen Kumar Chaudhary <naveen.osdev at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/serial/serial_goldfish.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/serial/serial_goldfish.c b/drivers/serial/serial_goldfish.c
index 91dc040fcf2..732f167caae 100644
--- a/drivers/serial/serial_goldfish.c
+++ b/drivers/serial/serial_goldfish.c
@@ -74,8 +74,10 @@ static int goldfish_serial_of_to_plat(struct udevice *dev)
 	fdt_addr_t addr;
 
 	addr = dev_read_addr(dev);
-	if (addr != FDT_ADDR_T_NONE)
-		plat->reg = addr;
+	if (addr == FDT_ADDR_T_NONE)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	plat->reg = addr;
 
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
2.43.0



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