Re: [PATCH v1 4/5] coresight: Separate failure and success flows

From: Suzuki K Poulose

Date: Thu Sep 11 2025 - 06:03:09 EST


On 12/05/2025 16:41, Leo Yan wrote:
For a success registration, it releases mutex, then binds associated CTI
device, and returns a device pointer.

As a result, it separates flows between the success case and the failure
flow, any code after the tag 'out_unlock' is only used for failure
handling.


This description is a bit ambiguous. Please could we simply say:

Subject: coresight: Cleanup coresight_register error handling

Separate the failure handling path from the successful case.
Use the out_unlock label only for the failure handling.

Rest looks fine to me.

Suzuki

Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-core.c | 20 ++++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-core.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-core.c
index 4f51ce152ac7..4fc82206b326 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-core.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-core.c
@@ -1377,17 +1377,21 @@ struct coresight_device *coresight_register(struct coresight_desc *desc)
registered = true;
ret = coresight_create_conns_sysfs_group(csdev);
- if (!ret)
- ret = coresight_fixup_orphan_conns(csdev);
+ if (ret)
+ goto out_unlock;
+
+ ret = coresight_fixup_orphan_conns(csdev);
+ if (ret)
+ goto out_unlock;
+
+ mutex_unlock(&coresight_mutex);
+
+ if (cti_assoc_ops && cti_assoc_ops->add)
+ cti_assoc_ops->add(csdev);
+ return csdev;
out_unlock:
mutex_unlock(&coresight_mutex);
- /* Success */
- if (!ret) {
- if (cti_assoc_ops && cti_assoc_ops->add)
- cti_assoc_ops->add(csdev);
- return csdev;
- }
/* Unregister the device if needed */
if (registered) {