linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.8-stable] thermal: return an error on failure to register thermal

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Date:	Wed, 03 Apr 2013 09:38:55 +0900
From:	Jonghwan Choi <jhbird.choi@...sung.com>
To:	'Jonghwan Choi' <jhbird.choi@...sung.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	stable@...r.kernel.org, 'Zhang Rui' <rui.zhang@...el.com>,
	'Richard Guy Briggs' <rbriggs@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.8-stable] thermal: return an error on failure to register
 thermal

3.8-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: "Richard Guy Briggs <rbriggs@...hat.com>"

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@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>
---
 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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