[PATCH v3] thermal/drivers/rcar: fix error checking in probe()

From: Dan Carpenter

Date: Fri Jun 26 2026 - 06:38:47 EST


This code accidentally calls thermal_zone_device_enable() before checking
whether thermal_zone_device_register_with_trips() failed. Move the call
until later to avoid an error pointer dereference of "priv->zone".

The driver works differently depending on if we are using OF thermal or
not. We use thermal_add_hwmon_sysfs() if we are using OF thermal and
call thermal_zone_device_enable() if not. We can share same error check
for if either of these fail.

Moving the thermal_zone_device_enable() call is a bit cleaner as well.
The original code used a three step process to cleanup:
1. Call thermal_zone_device_unregister() to cleanup.
2. Set priv->zone to an error pointer to preserve the error code.
3. Set priv->zone to NULL to avoid a second call to
thermal_zone_device_unregister() in the rcar_thermal_remove()
function.

Now we can just do a direct goto error_unregister and rcar_thermal_remove()
handles the cleanup properly.

Fixes: bbcf90c0646a ("thermal: Explicitly enable non-changing thermal zone devices")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
---
v2: Use the correct fixes tag and re-write the check in a cleaner way.
v3: Share the same error checking as a further cleanup. The
thermal_add_hwmon_sysfs() and thermal_zone_device_enable() functions
really do serve the same purpose even though their names are
different.

drivers/thermal/renesas/rcar_thermal.c | 15 +++++----------
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/thermal/renesas/rcar_thermal.c b/drivers/thermal/renesas/rcar_thermal.c
index 6e5dcac5d47a..fd686da9252e 100644
--- a/drivers/thermal/renesas/rcar_thermal.c
+++ b/drivers/thermal/renesas/rcar_thermal.c
@@ -492,12 +492,6 @@ static int rcar_thermal_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
"rcar_thermal", trips, ARRAY_SIZE(trips), priv,
&rcar_thermal_zone_ops, NULL, 0,
idle);
-
- ret = thermal_zone_device_enable(priv->zone);
- if (ret) {
- thermal_zone_device_unregister(priv->zone);
- priv->zone = ERR_PTR(ret);
- }
}
if (IS_ERR(priv->zone)) {
dev_err(dev, "can't register thermal zone\n");
@@ -506,11 +500,12 @@ static int rcar_thermal_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
goto error_unregister;
}

- if (chip->use_of_thermal) {
+ if (chip->use_of_thermal)
ret = thermal_add_hwmon_sysfs(priv->zone);
- if (ret)
- goto error_unregister;
- }
+ else
+ ret = thermal_zone_device_enable(priv->zone);
+ if (ret)
+ goto error_unregister;

rcar_thermal_irq_enable(priv);

--
2.53.0