FAILED: patch "[PATCH] i2c: mark device nodes only in case of successful" failed to apply to 4.8-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 4.8-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

>From 6a676fb69dcbf3310b9e462c1db66c8e7f6ead38 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ralf Ramsauer <ralf@ramses-pyramidenbau.de>
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 15:59:57 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] i2c: mark device nodes only in case of successful
 instantiation

Instantiated I2C device nodes are marked with OF_POPULATE. This was
introduced in 4f001fd30145a6. On unloading, loaded device nodes will of
course be unmarked. The problem are nodes that fail during
initialisation: If a node fails, it won't be unloaded and hence not be
unmarked.

If a I2C driver module is unloaded and reloaded, it will skip nodes that
failed before.

Skip device nodes that are already populated and mark them only in case
of success.

Fixes: 4f001fd30145a6 ("i2c: Mark instantiated device nodes with OF_POPULATE")
Signed-off-by: Ralf Ramsauer <ralf@ramses-pyramidenbau.de>
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Acked-by: Pantelis Antoniou <pantelis.antoniou@konsulko.com>
[wsa: use 14-digit commit sha]
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org

diff --git a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
index 5ab67219f71e..1704fc84d647 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
@@ -1681,6 +1681,7 @@ static struct i2c_client *of_i2c_register_device(struct i2c_adapter *adap,
 static void of_i2c_register_devices(struct i2c_adapter *adap)
 {
 	struct device_node *bus, *node;
+	struct i2c_client *client;
 
 	/* Only register child devices if the adapter has a node pointer set */
 	if (!adap->dev.of_node)
@@ -1695,7 +1696,14 @@ static void of_i2c_register_devices(struct i2c_adapter *adap)
 	for_each_available_child_of_node(bus, node) {
 		if (of_node_test_and_set_flag(node, OF_POPULATED))
 			continue;
-		of_i2c_register_device(adap, node);
+
+		client = of_i2c_register_device(adap, node);
+		if (IS_ERR(client)) {
+			dev_warn(&adap->dev,
+				 "Failed to create I2C device for %s\n",
+				 node->full_name);
+			of_node_clear_flag(node, OF_POPULATED);
+		}
 	}
 
 	of_node_put(bus);
@@ -2299,6 +2307,7 @@ static int of_i2c_notify(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long action,
 		if (IS_ERR(client)) {
 			dev_err(&adap->dev, "failed to create client for '%s'\n",
 				 rd->dn->full_name);
+			of_node_clear_flag(rd->dn, OF_POPULATED);
 			return notifier_from_errno(PTR_ERR(client));
 		}
 		break;