Re: [PATCH 1/1] PCI: mediatek-gen3: fix unreachable error message in probe

From: Chen-Yu Tsai

Date: Mon Jun 22 2026 - 22:45:33 EST


Hi,

On Tue, Jun 23, 2026 at 10:07 AM <fffsqian@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Qingshuang Fu <fuqingshuang@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> In mtk_pcie_probe(), the error handling for pci_pwrctrl_create_devices()
> has the goto statement before the dev_err_probe() call, making the error
> message completely unreachable. When this function fails, no diagnostic
> message is ever printed.
>
> Reorder so that dev_err_probe() is called before jumping to the cleanup
> label, restoring the intended error reporting.
>
> Fixes: 1a152e21940a ("PCI: mediatek-gen3: Integrate new pwrctrl API")
> Signed-off-by: Qingshuang Fu <fuqingshuang@xxxxxxxxxx>

A fix was supposedly already merged:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260512103347.1751080-1-wenst@xxxxxxxxxxxx/

ChenYu

> ---
> drivers/pci/controller/pcie-mediatek-gen3.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/controller/pcie-mediatek-gen3.c b/drivers/pci/controller/pcie-mediatek-gen3.c
> index b0accd828589..5d7cfed44637 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/controller/pcie-mediatek-gen3.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/controller/pcie-mediatek-gen3.c
> @@ -1222,8 +1222,8 @@ static int mtk_pcie_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>
> err = pci_pwrctrl_create_devices(pcie->dev);
> if (err) {
> - goto err_tear_down_irq;
> dev_err_probe(dev, err, "failed to create pwrctrl devices\n");
> + goto err_tear_down_irq;
> }
>
> err = mtk_pcie_setup(pcie);
>
> base-commit: 4708cac0e22cfd217f48f7cec3c35e5922efcccd
> --
> 2.25.1
>