Ensure that all error handling branches print error information. In this way, when this function fails, the upper-layer functions can directly return an error code without missing debugging information. Otherwise, the error message will be printed redundantly or missing. Signed-off-by: Yangtao Li <frank.li@xxxxxxxx> --- Resend patchset so that the changes to thermal/hwmon.c are copied to everyone. drivers/thermal/thermal_hwmon.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/thermal/thermal_hwmon.c b/drivers/thermal/thermal_hwmon.c index fbe55509e307..a580add5a2f6 100644 --- a/drivers/thermal/thermal_hwmon.c +++ b/drivers/thermal/thermal_hwmon.c @@ -271,11 +271,14 @@ int devm_thermal_add_hwmon_sysfs(struct device *dev, struct thermal_zone_device ptr = devres_alloc(devm_thermal_hwmon_release, sizeof(*ptr), GFP_KERNEL); - if (!ptr) + if (!ptr) { + dev_err(dev, "Failed to allocate device resource data\n"); return -ENOMEM; + } ret = thermal_add_hwmon_sysfs(tz); if (ret) { + dev_err(dev, "Failed to add hwmon sysfs attributes\n"); devres_free(ptr); return ret; } -- 2.39.0