ACPI thermal: extract return values using PTR_ERR

Need to extract errors using PTR_ERR macro and
process accordingly.thermal_cooling_device_register
returning NULL means that CONFIG_THERMAL=n and in that
case no need to create symbolic links.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Sujith <sujith.thomas@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/processor_core.c b/drivers/acpi/processor_core.c
index 75ccf5d18bf..b02006951cd 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/processor_core.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/processor_core.c
@@ -670,21 +670,26 @@ static int __cpuinit acpi_processor_start(struct acpi_device *device)
 
         pr->cdev = thermal_cooling_device_register("Processor", device,
                                                 &processor_cooling_ops);
-        if (pr->cdev)
+        if (IS_ERR(pr->cdev)) {
+                result = PTR_ERR(pr->cdev);
+                goto end;
+        }
+        if (pr->cdev) {
                 printk(KERN_INFO PREFIX
                         "%s is registered as cooling_device%d\n",
                         device->dev.bus_id, pr->cdev->id);
-        else
-                goto end;
 
-        result = sysfs_create_link(&device->dev.kobj, &pr->cdev->device.kobj,
-                                        "thermal_cooling");
-        if (result)
-                return result;
-        result = sysfs_create_link(&pr->cdev->device.kobj, &device->dev.kobj,
-                                        "device");
-        if (result)
-                return result;
+                result = sysfs_create_link(&device->dev.kobj,
+                                           &pr->cdev->device.kobj,
+                                           "thermal_cooling");
+                if (result)
+                        return result;
+                result = sysfs_create_link(&pr->cdev->device.kobj,
+                                           &device->dev.kobj,
+                                           "device");
+                if (result)
+                        return result;
+        }
 
         if (pr->flags.throttling) {
                 printk(KERN_INFO PREFIX "%s [%s] (supports",
@@ -809,10 +814,12 @@ static int acpi_processor_remove(struct acpi_device *device, int type)
 
         acpi_processor_remove_fs(device);
 
-        sysfs_remove_link(&device->dev.kobj, "thermal_cooling");
-        sysfs_remove_link(&pr->cdev->device.kobj, "device");
-        thermal_cooling_device_unregister(pr->cdev);
-        pr->cdev = NULL;
+        if (pr->cdev) {
+                sysfs_remove_link(&device->dev.kobj, "thermal_cooling");
+                sysfs_remove_link(&pr->cdev->device.kobj, "device");
+                thermal_cooling_device_unregister(pr->cdev);
+                pr->cdev = NULL;
+        }
 
         processors[pr->id] = NULL;