[PATCH] thermal: exynos: Disable the regulator on probe failure
Lukasz Majewski
l.majewski at samsung.com
Mon Jul 6 08:05:03 PDT 2015
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?
>
> Best regards,
> Krzysztof
Applied to linux-samsung-thermal.git
Thanks for fix and sorry for the delay.
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Best regards,
Lukasz Majewski
Samsung R&D Institute Poland (SRPOL) | Linux Platform Group
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