[PATCH v2] EDAC/synopsys: Fix cleanup on injection sysfs failure

Yuho Choi dbgh9129 at gmail.com
Fri Jun 5 05:54:17 PDT 2026


edac_create_sysfs_attributes() creates inject_data_error before
inject_data_poison. If the second file creation fails, the first file is
left behind.

The same failure path runs after edac_mc_add_mc() has registered the
memory controller with the EDAC core. Jumping directly to edac_mc_free()
skips edac_mc_del_mc() and leaves the registered controller state
unwound incorrectly.

Remove inject_data_error when inject_data_poison creation fails, and
route the probe failure through edac_mc_del_mc() before freeing mci.

Fixes: 1a81361f75d8 ("EDAC, synopsys: Add Error Injection support for ZynqMP DDR controller")
Signed-off-by: Yuho Choi <dbgh9129 at gmail.com>
---
Changes in v2:
- Remove the CONFIG_EDAC_DEBUG-guarded del_mc label.
- Call edac_mc_del_mc() inline before jumping to free_edac_mc when
  edac_create_sysfs_attributes() fails.

 drivers/edac/synopsys_edac.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/edac/synopsys_edac.c b/drivers/edac/synopsys_edac.c
index 51143b3257de..9ca2a842612e 100644
--- a/drivers/edac/synopsys_edac.c
+++ b/drivers/edac/synopsys_edac.c
@@ -1120,8 +1120,10 @@ static int edac_create_sysfs_attributes(struct mem_ctl_info *mci)
 	if (rc < 0)
 		return rc;
 	rc = device_create_file(&mci->dev, &dev_attr_inject_data_poison);
-	if (rc < 0)
+	if (rc < 0) {
+		device_remove_file(&mci->dev, &dev_attr_inject_data_error);
 		return rc;
+	}
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -1431,6 +1433,7 @@ static int mc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 		if (rc) {
 			edac_printk(KERN_ERR, EDAC_MC,
 					"Failed to create sysfs entries\n");
+			edac_mc_del_mc(&pdev->dev);
 			goto free_edac_mc;
 		}
 	}
-- 
2.43.0



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