This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled backlight: sky81452-backlight: Fix refcount imbalance on error to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: backlight-sky81452-backlight-fix-refcount-imbalance-.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 4892878c897147f2284c9030426e4f9328ee9581 Author: dinghao.liu@xxxxxxxxxx <dinghao.liu@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Aug 20 14:38:17 2020 +0800 backlight: sky81452-backlight: Fix refcount imbalance on error [ Upstream commit b7a4f80bc316a56d6ec8750e93e66f42431ed960 ] When of_property_read_u32_array() returns an error code, a pairing refcount decrement is needed to keep np's refcount balanced. Fixes: f705806c9f355 ("backlight: Add support Skyworks SKY81452 backlight driver") Signed-off-by: Dinghao Liu <dinghao.liu@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/sky81452-backlight.c b/drivers/video/backlight/sky81452-backlight.c index d414c7a3acf5a..a2f77625b7170 100644 --- a/drivers/video/backlight/sky81452-backlight.c +++ b/drivers/video/backlight/sky81452-backlight.c @@ -207,6 +207,7 @@ static struct sky81452_bl_platform_data *sky81452_bl_parse_dt( num_entry); if (ret < 0) { dev_err(dev, "led-sources node is invalid.\n"); + of_node_put(np); return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); }