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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/3] thermal: core: Reorder 'thermal_zone_device_register()' error handling code
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On Sun, 2017-07-16 at 08:59 +0200, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> Reorder code in the error handling path in order to match the way
> resources
> have been allocated.
>
> With this new order, we can avoid a call to 'device_unregister()' if
> 'thermal_zone_create_device_groups'()' fails. At this point,
> 'device_register()' has not been called yet.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
> ---
>  drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c | 5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
> b/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
> index 9743f3e65eb0..c58714800660 100644
> --- a/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
> +++ b/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
> @@ -1232,7 +1232,7 @@ thermal_zone_device_register(const char *type,
> int trips, int mask,
>   /* Add nodes that are always present via .groups */
>   result = thermal_zone_create_device_groups(tz, mask);
>   if (result)
> - goto unregister;
> + goto remove_id;
>
I agree we should release ida and free tz, like you did in this patch.

But the problem is in the code below, where device_register() fails,
we should free the resources allocated in
thermal_zone_create_device_groups() explicitly.

thanks,
rui

>   /* A new thermal zone needs to be updated anyway. */
>   atomic_set(&tz->need_update, 1);
> @@ -1294,8 +1294,9 @@ thermal_zone_device_register(const char *type,
> int trips, int mask,
>   return tz;
>  
>  unregister:
> - ida_simple_remove(&thermal_tz_ida, tz->id);
>   device_unregister(&tz->device);
> +remove_id:
> + ida_simple_remove(&thermal_tz_ida, tz->id);
>   kfree(tz);
>   return ERR_PTR(result);
>  }

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