patch "firmware: vpd: Tie firmware kobject to device lifetime" added to char-misc-linus

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    firmware: vpd: Tie firmware kobject to device lifetime

to my char-misc git tree which can be found at
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.git
in the char-misc-linus branch.

The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree
(usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)

The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the
next -rc kernel release.

If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.


>From e4b28b3c3a405b251fa25db58abe1512814a680a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 13:00:44 -0800
Subject: firmware: vpd: Tie firmware kobject to device lifetime

It doesn't make sense to have /sys/firmware/vpd if the device is not
instantiated, so tie its lifetime to the device.

Fixes: 049a59db34eb ("firmware: Google VPD sysfs driver")
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/firmware/google/vpd.c | 19 +++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/google/vpd.c b/drivers/firmware/google/vpd.c
index 84217172297b..942e358efa60 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/google/vpd.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/google/vpd.c
@@ -295,7 +295,17 @@ static int vpd_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
 
-	return vpd_sections_init(entry.cbmem_addr);
+	vpd_kobj = kobject_create_and_add("vpd", firmware_kobj);
+	if (!vpd_kobj)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
+	ret = vpd_sections_init(entry.cbmem_addr);
+	if (ret) {
+		kobject_put(vpd_kobj);
+		return ret;
+	}
+
+	return 0;
 }
 
 static int vpd_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
@@ -303,6 +313,8 @@ static int vpd_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	vpd_section_destroy(&ro_vpd);
 	vpd_section_destroy(&rw_vpd);
 
+	kobject_put(vpd_kobj);
+
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -322,10 +334,6 @@ static int __init vpd_platform_init(void)
 	if (IS_ERR(pdev))
 		return PTR_ERR(pdev);
 
-	vpd_kobj = kobject_create_and_add("vpd", firmware_kobj);
-	if (!vpd_kobj)
-		return -ENOMEM;
-
 	platform_driver_register(&vpd_driver);
 
 	return 0;
@@ -333,7 +341,6 @@ static int __init vpd_platform_init(void)
 
 static void __exit vpd_platform_exit(void)
 {
-	kobject_put(vpd_kobj);
 }
 
 module_init(vpd_platform_init);
-- 
2.15.0