From: l.majewski@samsung.com (Lukasz Majewski)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] thermal: exynos: Disable the regulator on probe failure
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2015 18:14:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150608181459.454c9067@amdc2363> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1433727349-23330-1-git-send-email-k.kozlowski@samsung.com>
Hi Krzysztof,
> During probe the regulator (if present) was enabled but not disabled
> in case of failure. So an unsuccessful probe lead to enabling the
> regulator which was actually not needed because the device was not
> enabled.
>
> Additionally each deferred probe lead to increase of regulator enable
> count so it would not be effectively disabled during removal of the
> device.
Thanks for catching this.
>
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@samsung.com>
> Fixes: 498d22f616f6 ("thermal: exynos: Support for TMU regulator
> defined at device tree") Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
>
> ---
>
> I am not entirely convinced that this should go to stable. Leaving a
> regulator enabled in case of probe failure (no exynos TMU device) or
> after deferred probe (regulator won't be disabled during device
> removal) is not a critical issue, just leaks power.
> ---
> drivers/thermal/samsung/exynos_tmu.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/thermal/samsung/exynos_tmu.c
> b/drivers/thermal/samsung/exynos_tmu.c index
> 531f4b179871..13c3aceed19d 100644 ---
> a/drivers/thermal/samsung/exynos_tmu.c +++
> b/drivers/thermal/samsung/exynos_tmu.c @@ -1392,6 +1392,8 @@
> err_clk_sec: if (!IS_ERR(data->clk_sec))
> clk_unprepare(data->clk_sec);
> err_sensor:
> + if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(data->regulator))
> + regulator_disable(data->regulator);
> thermal_zone_of_sensor_unregister(&pdev->dev, data->tzd);
>
> return ret;
Acked-by: Lukasz Majewski <l.majewski@samsung.com>
I will test it and afterwards add to samsung-thermal tree.
--
Best regards,
Lukasz Majewski
Samsung R&D Institute Poland (SRPOL) | Linux Platform Group
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-08 16:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-08 1:35 [PATCH] thermal: exynos: Disable the regulator on probe failure Krzysztof Kozlowski
2015-06-08 6:54 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2015-06-08 16:14 ` Lukasz Majewski [this message]
2015-07-06 4:00 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2015-07-06 7:01 ` Lukasz Majewski
2015-07-06 7:02 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2015-07-06 15:05 ` Lukasz Majewski
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