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Luca Ceresoli 940b27161a Revert "leds: led-core: Fix refcount leak in of_led_get()" 
This reverts commit da1afe8e60.

Commit 699a8c7c4b ("leds: Add of_led_get() and led_put()"), introduced in
5.5, added of_led_get() and led_put() but missed a put_device() in
led_put(), thus creating a leak in case the consumer device is removed.

Arguably device removal was not very popular, so this went apparently
unnoticed until 2022. In January 2023 two different patches got merged to
fix the same bug:

 - commit da1afe8e60 ("leds: led-core: Fix refcount leak in of_led_get()")
 - commit 445110941e ("leds: led-class: Add missing put_device() to led_put()")

They fix the bug in two different ways, which creates no patch conflicts,
and both were merged in v6.2. The result is that now there is one more
put_device() than get_device()s, instead of one less.

Arguably device removal is not very popular yet, so this apparently hasn't
been noticed as well up to now. But it blew up here while I'm working with
device tree overlay insertion and removal. The symptom is an apparently
unrelated list of oopses on device removal, with reasons:

  kernfs: can not remove 'uevent', no directory
  kernfs: can not remove 'brightness', no directory
  kernfs: can not remove 'max_brightness', no directory
  ...

Here sysfs fails removing attribute files, which is because the device name
changed and so the sysfs path. This is because the device name string got
corrupted, which is because it got freed too early and its memory reused.

Different symptoms could appear in different use cases.

Fix by removing one of the two fixes.

The choice was to remove commit da1afe8e60 because:

 * it is calling put_device() inside of_led_get() just after getting the
   device, thus it is basically not refcounting the LED device at all
   during its entire lifetime
 * it does not add a corresponding put_device() in led_get(), so it fixes
   only the OF case

The other fix (445110941e) is adding the put_device() in led_put() so it
covers the entire lifetime, and it works even in the non-DT case.

Fixes: da1afe8e60 ("leds: led-core: Fix refcount leak in of_led_get()")
Co-developed-by: Hervé Codina <herve.codina@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Hervé Codina <herve.codina@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240625-led-class-device-leak-v2-1-75fdccf47421@bootlin.com
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
History 2024-06-27 09:08:37 +01:00
arch 16 hotfixes, 11 of which are cc:stable. 2024-05-25 15:10:33 -07:00
block block-6.10-20240523 2024-05-23 13:44:47 -07:00
certs kbuild: use $(src) instead of $(srctree)/$(src) for source directory 2024-05-10 04:34:52 +09:00
crypto This push fixes a bug in the new ecc P521 code as well as a buggy 2024-05-20 08:47:54 -07:00
Documentation dt-bindings: leds-lp55xx: Add new ti,lp5569 compatible 2024-06-26 17:08:30 +01:00
drivers Revert "leds: led-core: Fix refcount leak in of_led_get()" 2024-06-27 09:08:37 +01:00
fs four smb client fixes, including two important netfs integration fixes 2024-05-25 22:33:10 -07:00
include Merge branches 'ib-leds-mfd-6.11', 'ib-leds-platform-power-6.11' and 'ib-mfd-leds-platform-6.11' into ibs-for-leds-merged 2024-06-21 11:54:35 +01:00
init Driver core changes for 6.10-rc1 2024-05-22 12:13:40 -07:00
io_uring io_uring-6.10-20240523 2024-05-23 13:41:49 -07:00
ipc Mainly singleton patches, documented in their respective changelogs. 2024-05-19 14:02:03 -07:00
kernel Misc fixes: 2024-05-25 14:48:40 -07:00
lib 16 hotfixes, 11 of which are cc:stable. 2024-05-25 15:10:33 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
mm 16 hotfixes, 11 of which are cc:stable. 2024-05-25 15:10:33 -07:00
net NFS client updates for Linux 6.10 2024-05-23 13:51:09 -07:00
rust LoongArch changes for v6.10 2024-05-22 09:43:07 -07:00
samples tracing/treewide: Remove second parameter of __assign_str() 2024-05-22 20:14:47 -04:00
scripts - A series ("kbuild: enable more warnings by default") from Arnd 2024-05-22 18:59:29 -07:00
security hardening fixes for v6.10-rc1 2024-05-24 08:33:44 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 6.10-rc1 2024-05-24 08:48:51 -07:00
tools Revert a patch causing a regression as described in the cset: 2024-05-26 09:54:26 -07:00
usr kbuild: use $(src) instead of $(srctree)/$(src) for source directory 2024-05-10 04:34:52 +09:00
virt The usual shower of singleton fixes and minor series all over MM, 2024-05-19 09:21:03 -07:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with v6.7-rc4's for_each macro list 2023-12-08 23:54:38 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.editorconfig Add .editorconfig file for basic formatting 2023-12-28 16:22:47 +09:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add Jeff Kirsher to .get_maintainer.ignore 2024-03-08 11:36:54 +00:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore kbuild: create a list of all built DTB files 2024-02-19 18:20:39 +09:00
.mailmap mailmap: update email address for Satya Priya 2024-05-24 11:55:05 -07:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Drop Gustavo Pimentel as PCI DWC Maintainer 2024-03-27 13:41:02 -05:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: Update LED's active maintainer tree 2024-06-26 16:56:10 +01:00
Makefile Linux 6.10-rc1 2024-05-26 15:20:12 -07:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.