Re: [PATCH v3 01/11] leds: led-class: Add missing put_device() to led_put()

[Andy Shevchenko <andy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 12:30:03PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> led_put() is used to "undo" a successful of_led_get() call,
> of_led_get() uses class_find_device_by_of_node() which returns
> a reference to the device which must be free-ed with put_device()
> when the caller is done with it.
> 
> Add a put_device() call to led_put() to free the reference returned
> by class_find_device_by_of_node().
> 
> And also add a put_device() in the error-exit case of try_module_get()
> failing.

...

>  	led_cdev = dev_get_drvdata(led_dev);
>  
> -	if (!try_module_get(led_cdev->dev->parent->driver->owner))
> +	if (!try_module_get(led_cdev->dev->parent->driver->owner)) {
> +		put_device(led_cdev->dev);
>  		return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
> +	}
>  
>  	return led_cdev;

...

>  void led_put(struct led_classdev *led_cdev)
>  {
>  	module_put(led_cdev->dev->parent->driver->owner);
> +	put_device(led_cdev->dev);

Hmm... It was in the original submission.

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-leds/1443605522-1118-2-git-send-email-tomi.valkeinen@xxxxxx/

Nevertheless, shouldn't you put device before putting module? (It may need to
save the owner of the driver, I think.)

>  }

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko