Re: [PATCH] clockevents: add a error handling in tick_broadcast_init_sysfs()

kernel test robot
2025-12-20T15:33:19Z

Hi Haoxiang,

kernel test robot noticed the following build errors:

[auto build test ERROR on tip/timers/core]
[also build test ERROR on linus/master v6.19-rc1 next-20251219]
[If your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, kindly drop us a note.
And when submitting patch, we suggest to use '--base' as documented in
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url: https://github.com/intel-lab-lkp/linux/commits/Haoxiang-Li/clockevents-add-a-error-handling-in-tick_broadcast_init_sysfs/20251218-170931
base: tip/timers/core
patch link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251218090625.557965-1-lihaoxiang%40isrc.iscas.ac.cn
patch subject: [PATCH] clockevents: add a error handling in tick_broadcast_init_sysfs()
config: x86_64-allnoconfig (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20251220/202512202244.AR00sdAe-lkp@intel.com/config)
compiler: clang version 20.1.8 (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project 87f0227cb60147a26a1eeb4fb06e3b505e9c7261)
reproduce (this is a W=1 build): (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20251220/202512202244.AR00sdAe-lkp@intel.com/reproduce)

If you fix the issue in a separate patch/commit (i.e. not just a new version of
the same patch/commit), kindly add following tags
| Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
| Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202512202244.AR00sdAe-lkp@intel.com/

All errors (new ones prefixed by >>):

>> kernel/time/clockevents.c:737:3: error: call to undeclared function 'put_deivce'; ISO C99 and later do not support implicit function declarations [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
737 | put_deivce(&tick_bc_dev);
| ^
kernel/time/clockevents.c:737:3: note: did you mean 'put_device'?
include/linux/device.h:1162:6: note: 'put_device' declared here
1162 | void put_device(struct device *dev);
| ^
1 error generated.

vim +/put_deivce +737 kernel/time/clockevents.c

731
732 static __init int tick_broadcast_init_sysfs(void)
733 {
734 int err = device_register(&tick_bc_dev);
735
736 if (err) {
> 737 put_deivce(&tick_bc_dev);
738 return err;
739 }
740
741 err = device_create_file(&tick_bc_dev, &dev_attr_current_device);
742 return err;
743 }
744 #else
745 static struct tick_device *tick_get_tick_dev(struct device *dev)
746 {
747 return &per_cpu(tick_cpu_device, dev->id);
748 }
749 static inline int tick_broadcast_init_sysfs(void) { return 0; }
750 #endif
751

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