[PATCH] iio: chemical: sgp30: Handle IAQ thread creation failure

From: Linmao Li

Date: Wed Jul 22 2026 - 03:56:55 EST


kthread_run() can fail and return an error pointer, but sgp_probe() stores
it and returns success, so the device is registered without its IAQ thread
and sgp_remove() later passes the error pointer to kthread_stop(). Return
the error from probe instead.

Fixes: ce514124161a ("iio: chemical: sgp30: Support Sensirion SGP30/SGPC3 sensors")
Signed-off-by: Linmao Li <lilinmao@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/iio/chemical/sgp30.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/iio/chemical/sgp30.c b/drivers/iio/chemical/sgp30.c
index f10bbebc29e4..379c1c4af8d8 100644
--- a/drivers/iio/chemical/sgp30.c
+++ b/drivers/iio/chemical/sgp30.c
@@ -548,6 +548,9 @@ static int sgp_probe(struct i2c_client *client)

data->iaq_thread = kthread_run(sgp_iaq_threadfn, data,
"%s-iaq", data->client->name);
+ if (IS_ERR(data->iaq_thread))
+ return dev_err_probe(dev, PTR_ERR(data->iaq_thread),
+ "failed to start IAQ thread\n");

return 0;
}
--
2.25.1