From: Kunwu Chan <chentao@kylinos.cn> stable inclusion from stable-v6.6.7 commit 15e1490022e7c89bee335ea742f77eebf2a23a89 category: bugfix bugzilla: https://gitee.com/openeuler/kernel/issues/I8SSQ4 Reference: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=... -------------------------------- [ Upstream commit 3494a594315b56516988afb6854d75dee5b501db ] devm_hwmon_device_register_with_groups() returns an error pointer upon failure. Check its return value for errors. Compile-tested only. Fixes: 1a218d312e65 ("platform/mellanox: mlxbf-pmc: Add Mellanox BlueField PMC driver") Suggested-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com> Suggested-by: Vadim Pasternak <vadimp@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Kunwu Chan <chentao@kylinos.cn> Reviewed-by: Vadim Pasternak <vadimp@nvidia.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231201055447.2356001-1-chentao@kylinos.cn [ij: split the change into two] Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Zheng Zengkai <zhengzengkai@huawei.com> --- drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxbf-pmc.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxbf-pmc.c b/drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxbf-pmc.c index 925bfc4aef8c..db7a1d360cd2 100644 --- a/drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxbf-pmc.c +++ b/drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxbf-pmc.c @@ -1454,6 +1454,8 @@ static int mlxbf_pmc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) pmc->hwmon_dev = devm_hwmon_device_register_with_groups( dev, "bfperf", pmc, pmc->groups); + if (IS_ERR(pmc->hwmon_dev)) + return PTR_ERR(pmc->hwmon_dev); platform_set_drvdata(pdev, pmc); return 0; -- 2.20.1