[PATCH v1 5/5] coresight: Refine error handling for device registration

Leo Yan leo.yan at arm.com
Mon May 12 08:41:08 PDT 2025


When error happens in a device registration, the coresight_unregister()
function is invoked for cleanup.  coresight_unregister() includes the
complete flow for unregisteration a CoreSight device, it causes
redundant operations for some errors.

This commit changes to invoke more specific functions for cleanup
resources for each error.  This can allow the cleanup flow in better
granularity.

As a result, the local "registered" variable is not used anymore, remove
it.

Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan at arm.com>
---
 drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-core.c | 26 ++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-core.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-core.c
index 4fc82206b326..1eb4f6f0fe40 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-core.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-core.c
@@ -1297,7 +1297,6 @@ struct coresight_device *coresight_register(struct coresight_desc *desc)
 {
 	int ret;
 	struct coresight_device *csdev;
-	bool registered = false;
 
 	csdev = kzalloc(sizeof(*csdev), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!csdev) {
@@ -1362,27 +1361,23 @@ struct coresight_device *coresight_register(struct coresight_desc *desc)
 	    csdev->type == CORESIGHT_DEV_TYPE_LINKSINK) {
 		ret = etm_perf_add_symlink_sink(csdev);
 
-		if (ret) {
-			device_unregister(&csdev->dev);
+		if (ret)
 			/*
 			 * As with the above, all resources are free'd
 			 * explicitly via coresight_device_release() triggered
 			 * from put_device(), which is in turn called from
 			 * function device_unregister().
 			 */
-			goto out_unlock;
-		}
+			goto out_unregister_device;
 	}
-	/* Device is now registered */
-	registered = true;
 
 	ret = coresight_create_conns_sysfs_group(csdev);
 	if (ret)
-		goto out_unlock;
+		goto out_del_symlink_sink;
 
 	ret = coresight_fixup_orphan_conns(csdev);
 	if (ret)
-		goto out_unlock;
+		goto out_remove_conns;
 
 	mutex_unlock(&coresight_mutex);
 
@@ -1390,15 +1385,14 @@ struct coresight_device *coresight_register(struct coresight_desc *desc)
 		cti_assoc_ops->add(csdev);
 	return csdev;
 
+out_remove_conns:
+	coresight_remove_conns_sysfs_group(csdev);
+out_del_symlink_sink:
+	etm_perf_del_symlink_sink(csdev);
+out_unregister_device:
+	device_unregister(&csdev->dev);
 out_unlock:
 	mutex_unlock(&coresight_mutex);
-
-	/* Unregister the device if needed */
-	if (registered) {
-		coresight_unregister(csdev);
-		return ERR_PTR(ret);
-	}
-
 err_out:
 	/* Cleanup the connection information */
 	coresight_release_platform_data(NULL, csdev->dev.parent, desc->pdata);
-- 
2.34.1




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