linux-kernel - [PATCH] i2c: muxes: mule: Fix an error handling path in mule_i2c_mux

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Message-ID: <354bf00a245ec3bac9cdd197a06138dddda2f009.1753904271.git.christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2025 21:38:02 +0200
From: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
To: Peter Rosin <peda@...ntia.se>,
	Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@...nel.org>,
	Farouk Bouabid <farouk.bouabid@...rry.de>,
	Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@...g-engineering.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>,
	linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] i2c: muxes: mule: Fix an error handling path in mule_i2c_mux_probe()

If an error occurs in the loop that creates the device adapters, then a
reference to 'dev' still needs to be released.

Use for_each_child_of_node_scoped() to both fix the issue and save one line
of code.

Fixes: d0f8e97866bf ("i2c: muxes: add support for tsd,mule-i2c multiplexer")
Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
---
Compile tested only
---
 drivers/i2c/muxes/i2c-mux-mule.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/i2c/muxes/i2c-mux-mule.c b/drivers/i2c/muxes/i2c-mux-mule.c
index 284ff4afeeac..d3b32b794172 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/muxes/i2c-mux-mule.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/muxes/i2c-mux-mule.c
@@ -47,7 +47,6 @@ static int mule_i2c_mux_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	struct mule_i2c_reg_mux *priv;
 	struct i2c_client *client;
 	struct i2c_mux_core *muxc;
-	struct device_node *dev;
 	unsigned int readback;
 	int ndev, ret;
 	bool old_fw;
@@ -95,7 +94,7 @@ static int mule_i2c_mux_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 				     "Failed to register mux remove\n");
 
 	/* Create device adapters */
-	for_each_child_of_node(mux_dev->of_node, dev) {
+	for_each_child_of_node_scoped(mux_dev->of_node, dev) {
 		u32 reg;
 
 		ret = of_property_read_u32(dev, "reg", &reg);
-- 
2.50.1