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

From: Luis Henriques
Date: Wed Apr 03 2013 - 10:47:17 EST


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.

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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