Re: [PATCH v3] thermal/drivers/rcar: fix error checking in probe()

Daniel Lezcano <[email protected]> Wed, 8 Jul 2026 13:19:30 +0200
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.kernel-janitors,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.linux-pm,org.kernel.vger.linux-renesas-soc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
> ---

Applied, thanks