Need to check whether thermal_cooling_device_register returned ERROR or not. Signed-off-by: Thomas Sujith <sujith.thomas@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
@@ -731,6 +731,9 @@ static void acpi_video_device_find_cap(struct acpi_video_device *device)
device->cdev = thermal_cooling_device_register("LCD",
device->dev, &video_cooling_ops);
+ if (IS_ERR(device->cdev))
+ return;
+
if (device->cdev) {
printk(KERN_INFO PREFIX
"%s is registered as cooling_device%d\n",