[PATCH] thermal/core: Fix double device initialization

From: Daniel Lezcano

Date: Mon May 25 2026 - 11:16:37 EST


In the previous change splitting the cooling device register function,
the device initialization was mistakenly added in the move.

This change is wrong because the device is registered with the
function device_register() which does device_initialize() and then
device_add(). That results in a double initialization and a message in
logs:

[ 1.531290] kobject: kobject (0000000053ba73b2): tried to init an initialized object, something is seriously wrong.
[ 1.531293] CPU: 9 UID: 0 PID: 420 Comm: kworker/u50:3 Not tainted 7.1.0-rc1+ #48 PREEMPT(lazy)
[ 1.531294] Hardware name: LENOVO 21N10007UK/21N10007UK, BIOS N42ET38W (1.12 ) 05/29/2024
[ 1.531295] Workqueue: events_unbound deferred_probe_work_func
[ 1.531298] Call trace:
[ 1.531298] show_stack+0x24/0x50 (C)
[ 1.531301] dump_stack_lvl+0x80/0xc0
[ 1.531303] kobject_init+0xc0/0xd8
[ 1.531305] device_initialize+0x3c/0x140
[ 1.531308] device_register+0x20/0x48
[ 1.531310] thermal_cooling_device_add+0xe0/0x208
[ 1.531311] thermal_of_cooling_device_register+0x54/0xa0
[ 1.531313] __cpufreq_cooling_register+0x1e0/0x368
[ 1.531315] of_cpufreq_cooling_register+0x64/0xe0
[ 1.531316] cpufreq_online+0xa6c/0xef0
[ 1.531317] cpufreq_add_dev+0x108/0x180
[ 1.531318] subsys_interface_register+0x138/0x168
[ 1.531320] cpufreq_register_driver+0x1b8/0x390

Fix by just removing the added line.

Fixes: 13f4e660a126 ("thermal/core: Split __thermal_cooling_device_register() into two functions")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c b/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
index 9b9fa51067bd..3cf305ceaf41 100644
--- a/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
+++ b/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
@@ -1012,7 +1012,6 @@ static int thermal_cooling_device_add(struct thermal_cooling_device *cdev, void
cdev->updated = false;
cdev->device.class = thermal_class;
cdev->device.release = thermal_cdev_release;
- device_initialize(&cdev->device);
cdev->devdata = devdata;

ret = dev_set_name(&cdev->device, "cooling_device%d", cdev->id);
--
2.43.0