From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Zhang Rui Subject: Re: [PATCH] thermal: return an error on failure to register thermal class Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 23:48:56 +0800 Message-ID: <1361288936.2323.31.camel@rzhang1-mobl4> References: <1360697984-19960-1-git-send-email-rbriggs@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mga02.intel.com ([134.134.136.20]:12219 "EHLO mga02.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755746Ab3BSPtA (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:49:00 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1360697984-19960-1-git-send-email-rbriggs@redhat.com> Sender: linux-pm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org To: Richard Guy Briggs Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2013-02-12 at 14:39 -0500, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: > The return code from the registration of the thermal class is used to > unallocate resources, but this failure isn't passed back to the caller of > thermal_init. Return this failure back to the caller. > > This bug was introduced in changeset 4cb18728 which overwrote the return code > when the variable was re-used to catch the return code of the registration of > the genetlink thermal socket family. > > Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs applied to thermal -next. thanks, rui > --- > drivers/thermal/thermal_sys.c | 1 + > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > diff --git a/drivers/thermal/thermal_sys.c b/drivers/thermal/thermal_sys.c > index 8c8ce80..bfbf9fb 100644 > --- a/drivers/thermal/thermal_sys.c > +++ b/drivers/thermal/thermal_sys.c > @@ -1807,6 +1807,7 @@ static int __init thermal_init(void) > idr_destroy(&thermal_cdev_idr); > mutex_destroy(&thermal_idr_lock); > mutex_destroy(&thermal_list_lock); > + return result; > } > result = genetlink_init(); > return result;