[PATCH] thermal: exynos: Disable the regulator on probe failure

Krzysztof Kozlowski k.kozlowski at samsung.com
Mon Jul 6 00:02:20 PDT 2015


On 06.07.2015 16:01, Lukasz Majewski wrote:
> Hi Krzysztof,
> 
>> 2015-06-09 1:14 GMT+09:00 Lukasz Majewski <l.majewski at samsung.com>:
>>> Hi Krzysztof,
>>>
>>>> During probe the regulator (if present) was enabled but not
>>>> disabled in case of failure. So an unsuccessful probe lead to
>>>> enabling the regulator which was actually not needed because the
>>>> device was not enabled.
>>>>
>>>> Additionally each deferred probe lead to increase of regulator
>>>> enable count so it would not be effectively disabled during
>>>> removal of the device.
>>>
>>> Thanks for catching this.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski at samsung.com>
>>>> Fixes: 498d22f616f6 ("thermal: exynos: Support for TMU regulator
>>>> defined at device tree") Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org>
>>>>
>>>> ---
>>>>
>>>> I am not entirely convinced that this should go to stable. Leaving
>>>> a regulator enabled in case of probe failure (no exynos TMU
>>>> device) or after deferred probe (regulator won't be disabled
>>>> during device removal) is not a critical issue, just leaks power.
>>>> ---
>>>>  drivers/thermal/samsung/exynos_tmu.c | 2 ++
>>>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/thermal/samsung/exynos_tmu.c
>>>> b/drivers/thermal/samsung/exynos_tmu.c index
>>>> 531f4b179871..13c3aceed19d 100644 ---
>>>> a/drivers/thermal/samsung/exynos_tmu.c +++
>>>> b/drivers/thermal/samsung/exynos_tmu.c @@ -1392,6 +1392,8 @@
>>>> err_clk_sec: if (!IS_ERR(data->clk_sec))
>>>>               clk_unprepare(data->clk_sec);
>>>>  err_sensor:
>>>> +     if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(data->regulator))
>>>> +             regulator_disable(data->regulator);
>>>>       thermal_zone_of_sensor_unregister(&pdev->dev, data->tzd);
>>>>
>>>>       return ret;
>>>
>>> Acked-by: Lukasz Majewski <l.majewski at samsung.com>
>>>
>>> I will test it and afterwards add to samsung-thermal tree.
>>
>> Hi Łukasz,
>>
>> I can't find this patch in v4.2-rc1 or your tree. What happened?
> 
> I will got together with Chanowoo patches. I will send PR today to
> Eduardo.

Thanks!

Best regards,
Krzysztof



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