This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled gpiolib: sysfs: Fix error handling on failed export to the 5.10-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: gpiolib-sysfs-fix-error-handling-on-failed-export.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 36999e4e7d82d02baa4af4a951792b8052f73b22 Author: Boerge Struempfel <boerge.struempfel@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Nov 29 16:23:07 2023 +0100 gpiolib: sysfs: Fix error handling on failed export [ Upstream commit 95dd1e34ff5bbee93a28ff3947eceaf6de811b1a ] If gpio_set_transitory() fails, we should free the GPIO again. Most notably, the flag FLAG_REQUESTED has previously been set in gpiod_request_commit(), and should be reset on failure. To my knowledge, this does not affect any current users, since the gpio_set_transitory() mainly returns 0 and -ENOTSUPP, which is converted to 0. However the gpio_set_transitory() function calles the .set_config() function of the corresponding GPIO chip and there are some GPIO drivers in which some (unlikely) branches return other values like -EPROBE_DEFER, and -EINVAL. In these cases, the above mentioned FLAG_REQUESTED would not be reset, which results in the pin being blocked until the next reboot. Fixes: e10f72bf4b3e ("gpio: gpiolib: Generalise state persistence beyond sleep") Signed-off-by: Boerge Struempfel <boerge.struempfel@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-sysfs.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-sysfs.c index fa5d945b2f286..f45ba0f789d4f 100644 --- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-sysfs.c +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-sysfs.c @@ -491,14 +491,17 @@ static ssize_t export_store(struct class *class, } status = gpiod_set_transitory(desc, false); - if (!status) { - status = gpiod_export(desc, true); - if (status < 0) - gpiod_free(desc); - else - set_bit(FLAG_SYSFS, &desc->flags); + if (status) { + gpiod_free(desc); + goto done; } + status = gpiod_export(desc, true); + if (status < 0) + gpiod_free(desc); + else + set_bit(FLAG_SYSFS, &desc->flags); + done: if (status) pr_debug("%s: status %d\n", __func__, status);