This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
thermal/debugfs: Fix the NULL vs IS_ERR() confusion in debugfs_create_dir()
to the 6.10-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
thermal-debugfs-fix-the-null-vs-is_err-confusion-in-.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.10 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit e1fe8197b0f5296d2ec666817f75c5d6b83b8522
Author: Yang Ruibin <11162571@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Aug 21 03:59:33 2024 -0400
thermal/debugfs: Fix the NULL vs IS_ERR() confusion in debugfs_create_dir()
[ Upstream commit 57df60e1f981fa8c288a49012a4bbb02ae0ecdbc ]
The debugfs_create_dir() return value is never NULL, it is either a
valid pointer or an error one.
Use IS_ERR() to check it.
Fixes: 7ef01f228c9f ("thermal/debugfs: Add thermal debugfs information for mitigation episodes")
Fixes: 755113d76786 ("thermal/debugfs: Add thermal cooling device debugfs information")
Signed-off-by: Yang Ruibin <11162571@xxxxxxxx>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240821075934.12145-1-11162571@xxxxxxxx
[ rjw: Subject and changelog edits ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/thermal/thermal_debugfs.c b/drivers/thermal/thermal_debugfs.c
index 9424472291570..6d55f5fc4ca0f 100644
--- a/drivers/thermal/thermal_debugfs.c
+++ b/drivers/thermal/thermal_debugfs.c
@@ -178,11 +178,11 @@ struct thermal_debugfs {
void thermal_debug_init(void)
{
d_root = debugfs_create_dir("thermal", NULL);
- if (!d_root)
+ if (IS_ERR(d_root))
return;
d_cdev = debugfs_create_dir("cooling_devices", d_root);
- if (!d_cdev)
+ if (IS_ERR(d_cdev))
return;
d_tz = debugfs_create_dir("thermal_zones", d_root);
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ static struct thermal_debugfs *thermal_debugfs_add_id(struct dentry *d, int id)
snprintf(ids, IDSLENGTH, "%d", id);
thermal_dbg->d_top = debugfs_create_dir(ids, d);
- if (!thermal_dbg->d_top) {
+ if (IS_ERR(thermal_dbg->d_top)) {
kfree(thermal_dbg);
return NULL;
}
