added error handling so if lm75_update_device fails an error is returned when reading the value through sysfs This is closely modeled after the way this is handled in ltc4261 Signed-off-by: Frans Meulenbroeks <fransmeulenbroeks@xxxxxxxxx> --- patch is against the hwmon staging tree git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/groeck/linux-staging.git as retrieved on jan 2, 2012 drivers/hwmon/lm75.c | 20 +++++++++++++++----- 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/lm75.c b/drivers/hwmon/lm75.c index 1888dd0..21abae2 100644 --- a/drivers/hwmon/lm75.c +++ b/drivers/hwmon/lm75.c @@ -93,6 +93,10 @@ static ssize_t show_temp(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *da, { struct sensor_device_attribute *attr = to_sensor_dev_attr(da); struct lm75_data *data = lm75_update_device(dev); + + if (IS_ERR(data)) + return PTR_ERR(data); + return sprintf(buf, "%d\n", LM75_TEMP_FROM_REG(data->temp[attr->index])); } @@ -402,6 +406,7 @@ static struct lm75_data *lm75_update_device(struct device *dev) { struct i2c_client *client = to_i2c_client(dev); struct lm75_data *data = i2c_get_clientdata(client); + struct lm75_data *ret = data; mutex_lock(&data->update_lock); @@ -414,9 +419,14 @@ static struct lm75_data *lm75_update_device(struct device *dev) int status; status = lm75_read_value(client, LM75_REG_TEMP[i]); - if (status < 0) - dev_dbg(&client->dev, "reg %d, err %d\n", - LM75_REG_TEMP[i], status); + if (unlikely(status < 0)) { + dev_dbg(dev, + "LM75: Failed to read value: reg %d, error %d\n", + LM75_REG_TEMP[i], status); + ret = ERR_PTR(status); + data->valid = 0; + goto abort; + } else data->temp[i] = status; } @@ -424,9 +434,9 @@ static struct lm75_data *lm75_update_device(struct device *dev) data->valid = 1; } +abort: mutex_unlock(&data->update_lock); - - return data; + return ret; } /*-----------------------------------------------------------------------*/ -- 1.7.0.4 _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors