2017-11-13 13:57:58

by Daniel Thompson

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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] backlight: max8925_bl: fix device-tree node lookup



On 13/11/17 10:20, Johan Hovold wrote:
> Fix child-node lookup during probe, which ended up searching the whole
> device tree depth-first starting at the parent rather than just matching
> on its children.
>
> To make things worse, the parent mfd node was also prematurely freed,
> while the child backlight node was leaked.
>
> Fixes: 47ec340cb8e2 ("mfd: max8925: Support dt for backlight")
> Cc: stable <[email protected]> # 3.9
> Cc: Qing Xu <[email protected]>
> Cc: Haojian Zhuang <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Daniel Thompson <[email protected]>


> ---
> drivers/video/backlight/max8925_bl.c | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/max8925_bl.c b/drivers/video/backlight/max8925_bl.c
> index 7b738d60ecc2..f3aa6088f1d9 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/backlight/max8925_bl.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/backlight/max8925_bl.c
> @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ static void max8925_backlight_dt_init(struct platform_device *pdev)
> if (!pdata)
> return;
>
> - np = of_find_node_by_name(nproot, "backlight");
> + np = of_get_child_by_name(nproot, "backlight");
> if (!np) {
> dev_err(&pdev->dev, "failed to find backlight node\n");
> return;
> @@ -125,6 +125,8 @@ static void max8925_backlight_dt_init(struct platform_device *pdev)
> if (!of_property_read_u32(np, "maxim,max8925-dual-string", &val))
> pdata->dual_string = val;
>
> + of_node_put(np);
> +
> pdev->dev.platform_data = pdata;
> }
>
>

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