[PATCH] Input: soc_button_array - fix MS Surface Pro 11 probe failure
From: Hans de Goede <hidden>
Date: 2026-09-08 21:44:15
Also in:
platform-driver-x86
Subsystem:
input (keyboard, mouse, joystick, touchscreen) drivers, the rest · Maintainers:
Dmitry Torokhov, Linus Torvalds
On the MS Surface Pro 11 soc_button_array probing races with the GPIO driver probing. If soc_button_array wins the race then gpiod_get() returns EPROBE_DEFER, which should normally take care of retrying later, but the soc_button_array code deliberately ignores EPROBE_DEFER causing it to fail its probe() which causes the volume and power buttons to now work. The ignoring of EPROBE_DEFER is there to deal with a problem specific to older Bay Trail (BYT) and Cherry Trail (CHT) tablets which often use this driver. Modify the error handling to only ignore EPROBE_DEFER on BYT and CHT platforms and propagate EPROBE_DEFER normally on other platforms. Reported-by: Sergey Lebedev <redacted> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20260830141355.55898-1-lsa.uz@pm.me/ (local) Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <redacted> --- drivers/input/misc/soc_button_array.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/input/misc/soc_button_array.c b/drivers/input/misc/soc_button_array.c
index b8cad415c62c..6ed32c622d53 100644
--- a/drivers/input/misc/soc_button_array.c
+++ b/drivers/input/misc/soc_button_array.c@@ -149,6 +149,16 @@ static int soc_button_lookup_gpio(struct device *dev, int acpi_index, return 0; } +#ifdef CONFIG_X86 +#include <linux/platform_data/x86/soc.h> +static bool soc_intel_is_byt_or_cht(void) +{ + return soc_intel_is_byt() || soc_intel_is_cht(); +} +#else +static bool soc_intel_is_byt_or_cht(void) { return false; } +#endif + static struct platform_device * soc_button_device_create(struct platform_device *pdev, const struct soc_button_info *button_info,
@@ -191,8 +201,9 @@ soc_button_device_create(struct platform_device *pdev, error = soc_button_lookup_gpio(&pdev->dev, info->acpi_index, &gpio, &irq); if (error || irq < 0) { /* - * Skip GPIO if not present. Note we deliberately - * ignore -EPROBE_DEFER errors here. On some devices + * Propagate -EPROBE_DEFER, skip button on other errors. + * + * -EPROBE_DEFER is ignored on Bay & Cherry Trail. Here * Intel is using so called virtual GPIOs which are not * GPIOs at all but some way for AML code to check some * random status bits without need a custom opregion.
@@ -201,6 +212,9 @@ soc_button_device_create(struct platform_device *pdev, * we do not have a driver for these so they will never * show up, therefore we ignore -EPROBE_DEFER. */ + if (error == -EPROBE_DEFER && !soc_intel_is_byt_or_cht()) + goto err_free_mem; + continue; }
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