This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled serial: 8250_bcm7271: Fix error handling in brcmuart_init() to the 6.1-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: serial-8250_bcm7271-fix-error-handling-in-brcmuart_i.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 98a6e5d9ebbfd89126936aed5062a5ea7c5bb513 Author: Yuan Can <yuancan@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Nov 9 07:21:10 2022 +0000 serial: 8250_bcm7271: Fix error handling in brcmuart_init() [ Upstream commit 6a3ff858915fa8ca36c7eb02c87c9181ae2fc333 ] A problem about 8250_bcm7271 create debugfs failed is triggered with the following log given: [ 324.516635] debugfs: Directory 'bcm7271-uart' with parent '/' already present! The reason is that brcmuart_init() returns platform_driver_register() directly without checking its return value, if platform_driver_register() failed, it returns without destroy the newly created debugfs, resulting the debugfs of 8250_bcm7271 can never be created later. brcmuart_init() debugfs_create_dir() # create debugfs directory platform_driver_register() driver_register() bus_add_driver() priv = kzalloc(...) # OOM happened # return without destroy debugfs directory Fix by removing debugfs when platform_driver_register() returns error. Fixes: 41a469482de2 ("serial: 8250: Add new 8250-core based Broadcom STB driver") Signed-off-by: Yuan Can <yuancan@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221109072110.117291-2-yuancan@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_bcm7271.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_bcm7271.c index fa8ccf204d86..89bfcefbea84 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_bcm7271.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_bcm7271.c @@ -1212,9 +1212,17 @@ static struct platform_driver brcmuart_platform_driver = { static int __init brcmuart_init(void) { + int ret; + brcmuart_debugfs_root = debugfs_create_dir( brcmuart_platform_driver.driver.name, NULL); - return platform_driver_register(&brcmuart_platform_driver); + ret = platform_driver_register(&brcmuart_platform_driver); + if (ret) { + debugfs_remove_recursive(brcmuart_debugfs_root); + return ret; + } + + return 0; } module_init(brcmuart_init);