gpio: Fix resource leaks on errors in gpiochip_add_data_with_key()

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Since commit aab5c6f200 ("gpio: set device type for GPIO chips"),
`gdev->dev.release` is unset.  As a result, the reference count to
`gdev->dev` isn't dropped on the error handling paths.

Drop the reference on errors.

Also reorder the instructions to make the error handling simpler.
Now gpiochip_add_data_with_key() roughly looks like:

   >>> Some memory allocation.  Go to ERR ZONE 1 on errors.
   >>> device_initialize().

   gpiodev_release() takes over the responsibility for freeing the
   resources of `gdev->dev`.  The subsequent error handling paths
   shouldn't go through ERR ZONE 1 again which leads to double free.

   >>> Some initialization mainly on `gdev`.
   >>> The rest of initialization.  Go to ERR ZONE 2 on errors.
   >>> Chip registration success and exit.

   >>> ERR ZONE 2.  gpio_device_put() and exit.
   >>> ERR ZONE 1.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: aab5c6f200 ("gpio: set device type for GPIO chips")
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linusw@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260205092840.2574840-1-tzungbi@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@oss.qualcomm.com>

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Tzung-Bi Shih 2026-02-05 09:28:40 +00:00 • committed by Bartosz Golaszewski

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drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c

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