From: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@oss.qualcomm.com>
To: "Dan Carpenter" <error27@gmail.com>,
"Niklas Söderlund" <niklas.soderlund@ragnatech.se>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@kernel.org>,
Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>,
Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>,
Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>,
linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] thermal/drivers/rcar: fix error checking in probe()
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2026 13:19:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <91e4b9ac-7967-4e8c-af3e-9d29fa813fef@oss.qualcomm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aj5WnseULiwgmlWv@stanley.mountain>
On 6/26/26 12:38, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> This code accidentally calls thermal_zone_device_enable() before checking
> whether thermal_zone_device_register_with_trips() failed. Move the call
> until later to avoid an error pointer dereference of "priv->zone".
>
> The driver works differently depending on if we are using OF thermal or
> not. We use thermal_add_hwmon_sysfs() if we are using OF thermal and
> call thermal_zone_device_enable() if not. We can share same error check
> for if either of these fail.
>
> Moving the thermal_zone_device_enable() call is a bit cleaner as well.
> The original code used a three step process to cleanup:
> 1. Call thermal_zone_device_unregister() to cleanup.
> 2. Set priv->zone to an error pointer to preserve the error code.
> 3. Set priv->zone to NULL to avoid a second call to
> thermal_zone_device_unregister() in the rcar_thermal_remove()
> function.
>
> Now we can just do a direct goto error_unregister and rcar_thermal_remove()
> handles the cleanup properly.
>
> Fixes: bbcf90c0646a ("thermal: Explicitly enable non-changing thermal zone devices")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
> Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
> ---
Applied, thanks
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-08 11:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-26 10:38 [PATCH v3] thermal/drivers/rcar: fix error checking in probe() Dan Carpenter
2026-06-26 11:13 ` Niklas Söderlund
2026-07-08 11:19 ` Daniel Lezcano [this message]
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