ACPI thermal: extract return values using PTR_ERR
Need to extract errors using PTR_ERR macro and
process accordingly.thermal_cooling_device_register
returning NULL means that CONFIG_THERMAL=n and in that
case no need to create symbolic links.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Sujith <sujith.thomas@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/processor_core.c b/drivers/acpi/processor_core.c
index 75ccf5d..b020069 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/processor_core.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/processor_core.c
@@ -670,21 +670,26 @@
pr->cdev = thermal_cooling_device_register("Processor", device,
&processor_cooling_ops);
- if (pr->cdev)
+ if (IS_ERR(pr->cdev)) {
+ result = PTR_ERR(pr->cdev);
+ goto end;
+ }
+ if (pr->cdev) {
printk(KERN_INFO PREFIX
"%s is registered as cooling_device%d\n",
device->dev.bus_id, pr->cdev->id);
- else
- goto end;
- result = sysfs_create_link(&device->dev.kobj, &pr->cdev->device.kobj,
- "thermal_cooling");
- if (result)
- return result;
- result = sysfs_create_link(&pr->cdev->device.kobj, &device->dev.kobj,
- "device");
- if (result)
- return result;
+ result = sysfs_create_link(&device->dev.kobj,
+ &pr->cdev->device.kobj,
+ "thermal_cooling");
+ if (result)
+ return result;
+ result = sysfs_create_link(&pr->cdev->device.kobj,
+ &device->dev.kobj,
+ "device");
+ if (result)
+ return result;
+ }
if (pr->flags.throttling) {
printk(KERN_INFO PREFIX "%s [%s] (supports",
@@ -809,10 +814,12 @@
acpi_processor_remove_fs(device);
- sysfs_remove_link(&device->dev.kobj, "thermal_cooling");
- sysfs_remove_link(&pr->cdev->device.kobj, "device");
- thermal_cooling_device_unregister(pr->cdev);
- pr->cdev = NULL;
+ if (pr->cdev) {
+ sysfs_remove_link(&device->dev.kobj, "thermal_cooling");
+ sysfs_remove_link(&pr->cdev->device.kobj, "device");
+ thermal_cooling_device_unregister(pr->cdev);
+ pr->cdev = NULL;
+ }
processors[pr->id] = NULL;