In cases where the scheduler instance is used as a base object of another driver object, it's not clear if the driver can call scheduler cleanup on the fail path. So, Set the sched->thread to NULL, so that the driver can safely call drm_sched_fini() during cleanup. Signed-off-by: Sharat Masetty <smasetty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c index 44fe587..c993d10 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c @@ -594,7 +594,7 @@ int drm_sched_init(struct drm_gpu_scheduler *sched, long timeout, const char *name) { - int i; + int i, ret; sched->ops = ops; sched->hw_submission_limit = hw_submission; sched->name = name; @@ -615,8 +615,10 @@ int drm_sched_init(struct drm_gpu_scheduler *sched, /* Each scheduler will run on a seperate kernel thread */ sched->thread = kthread_run(drm_sched_main, sched, sched->name); if (IS_ERR(sched->thread)) { + ret = PTR_ERR(sched->thread); + sched->thread = NULL; DRM_ERROR("Failed to create scheduler for %s.\n", name); - return PTR_ERR(sched->thread); + return ret; } return 0; -- 1.9.1