Re: [PATCH 3.8-stable] thermal: return an error on failure toregister thermal

From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Sun Apr 21 2013 - 20:51:08 EST


On Wed, 2013-04-03 at 15:47 +0100, Luis Henriques wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 09:38:55AM +0900, Jonghwan Choi wrote:
> > 3.8-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
>
> I believe this is applicable to all the other stable kernels.

Queued up for 3.2, thanks.

Ben.

> Cheers,
> --
> Luis
>
> >
> > ------------------
> >
> > From: "Richard Guy Briggs <rbriggs@xxxxxxxxxx>"
> >
> > commit da28d966f6aa942ae836d09729f76a1647932309 upstream.
> >
> > The return code from the registration of the thermal class is used to
> > unallocate resources, but this failure isn't passed back to the caller of
> > thermal_init. Return this failure back to the caller.
> >
> > This bug was introduced in changeset 4cb18728 which overwrote the return
> > code
> > when the variable was re-used to catch the return code of the registration
> > of
> > the genetlink thermal socket family.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rbriggs@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/thermal/thermal_sys.c | 1 +
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/thermal/thermal_sys.c b/drivers/thermal/thermal_sys.c
> > index 6472e7e..1a19a2f 100644
> > --- a/drivers/thermal/thermal_sys.c
> > +++ b/drivers/thermal/thermal_sys.c
> > @@ -1875,6 +1875,7 @@ static int __init thermal_init(void)
> > idr_destroy(&thermal_cdev_idr);
> > mutex_destroy(&thermal_idr_lock);
> > mutex_destroy(&thermal_list_lock);
> > + return result;
> > }
> > result = genetlink_init();
> > return result;
> > --
> > 1.7.9.5
> >
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Ben Hutchings
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