linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] leds: gpio: Fix device teardown on probe deferral

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Date:	Mon, 20 Apr 2015 11:23:51 -0700
From:	Bryan Wu <cooloney@...il.com>
To:	Jacek Anaszewski <j.anaszewski@...sung.com>
Cc:	Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@...il.com>,
	Richard Purdie <rpurdie@...ys.net>,
	Linux LED Subsystem <linux-leds@...r.kernel.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] leds: gpio: Fix device teardown on probe deferral

On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 2:11 AM, Jacek Anaszewski
<j.anaszewski@...sung.com> wrote:
> Hi Sebastian,
>
> On 04/14/2015 11:23 PM, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:
>>
>> In gpio_leds_create(), when devm_get_gpiod_from_child() fails with
>> -EPROBE_DEFER on the second gpio led to be created, the first already
>> registered led is not torn down properly. This causes create_gpio_led()
>> to fail for the first led on re-probe().
>>
>> Fix this misbehaviour by incrementing num_leds only if all
>> potentially failing calls completed successfully.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@...il.com>
>> ---
>> Cc: Bryan Wu <cooloney@...il.com>
>> Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@...ys.net>
>> Cc: linux-leds@...r.kernel.org
>> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
>> ---
>>   drivers/leds/leds-gpio.c | 5 +++--
>>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
>
> For this patch:
>
> Acked-by: Jacek Anaszewski <j.anaszewski@...sung.com>
>

Thanks, I merged it.
-Bryan

> I have a question regarding the sequence above on line 201:
>
> if (!led.name)
>         return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
>
> Shouldn't this be also 'goto err"?
>
> --
> Best Regards,
> Jacek Anaszewski
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