diff --git a/drivers/devfreq/governor_memlat.c b/drivers/devfreq/governor_memlat.c
index 584a8d06239e..8997d0f11f53 100644
--- a/drivers/devfreq/governor_memlat.c
+++ b/drivers/devfreq/governor_memlat.c
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2015-2018, 2019, The Linux Foundation. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2015-2019, The Linux Foundation. All rights reserved.
  */
 
 #define pr_fmt(fmt) "mem_lat: " fmt
@@ -182,7 +182,8 @@ static int gov_start(struct devfreq *df)
 	node->orig_data = df->data;
 	df->data = node;
 
-	if (start_monitor(df))
+	ret = start_monitor(df);
+	if (ret < 0)
 		goto err_start;
 
 	ret = sysfs_create_group(&df->dev.kobj, node->attr_grp);