Re: [PATCH RESEND 2/4] PM / devfreq: Fix available_governors_show() when no governor is set

[Jie Zhan]

On 3/19/2026 5:17 PM, Yaxiong Tian wrote:
> Since devfreq_remove_governor() may clear the device's current governor
> in certain situations, while governors actually exist independently of
> the device, directly returning EINVAL in this case is inaccurate.
> 
> To fix this issue, remove this check and use df->governor for validity
> verification in the following code.
> 
> Fixes: 483d557ee9a3 ("PM / devfreq: Clean up the devfreq instance name in sysfs attr")
> Signed-off-by: Yaxiong Tian <tianyaxiong@xxxxxxxxxx>
LGTM

Reviewed-by: Jie Zhan <zhanjie9@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c | 5 +----
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c b/drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c
> index 63ce6e25abe2..0bf320123e3a 100644
> --- a/drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c
> +++ b/drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c
> @@ -1504,16 +1504,13 @@ static ssize_t available_governors_show(struct device *d,
>  	struct devfreq *df = to_devfreq(d);
>  	ssize_t count = 0;
>  
> -	if (!df->governor)
> -		return -EINVAL;
> -
>  	mutex_lock(&devfreq_list_lock);
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * The devfreq with immutable governor (e.g., passive) shows
>  	 * only own governor.
>  	 */
> -	if (IS_SUPPORTED_FLAG(df->governor->flags, IMMUTABLE)) {
> +	if (df->governor && IS_SUPPORTED_FLAG(df->governor->flags, IMMUTABLE)) {
>  		count = scnprintf(&buf[count], DEVFREQ_NAME_LEN,
>  				  "%s ", df->governor->name);
>  	/*