drm/probe-helper: warn about negative .get_modes()

[ Upstream commit 7af03e6887 ]

The .get_modes() callback is supposed to return the number of modes,
never a negative error code. If a negative value is returned, it'll just
be interpreted as a negative count, and added to previous calculations.

Document the rules, but handle the negative values gracefully with an
error message.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/50208c866facc33226a3c77b82bb96aeef8ef310.1709913674.git.jani.nikula@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

drivers/gpu/drm/drm_probe_helper.c

@@ -362,6 +362,13 @@ static int drm_helper_probe_get_modes(struct drm_connector *connector)
 
 	count = connector_funcs->get_modes(connector);
 
+	/* The .get_modes() callback should not return negative values. */
+	if (count < 0) {
+		drm_err(connector->dev, ".get_modes() returned %pe\n",
+			ERR_PTR(count));
+		count = 0;
+	}
+
 	/*
 	 * Fallback for when DDC probe failed in drm_get_edid() and thus skipped
 	 * override/firmware EDID.

include/drm/drm_modeset_helper_vtables.h

@@ -896,7 +896,8 @@ struct drm_connector_helper_funcs {
 	 *
 	 * RETURNS:
 	 *
-	 * The number of modes added by calling drm_mode_probed_add().
+	 * The number of modes added by calling drm_mode_probed_add(). Return 0
+	 * on failures (no modes) instead of negative error codes.
 	 */
 	int (*get_modes)(struct drm_connector *connector);