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From: Qasim Ijaz <qasdev00@gmail.com>
To: jikos@kernel.org, bentiss@kernel.org
Cc: gargaditya08@live.com, linux-input@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] HID: appletb-kbd: fix "appletb_backlight" backlight device reference counting
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2025 23:59:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250615225941.18320-1-qasdev00@gmail.com> (raw)

During appletb_kbd_probe, probe attempts to get the backlight device
by name. When this happens backlight_device_get_by_name looks for a
device in the backlight class which has name "appletb_backlight" and
upon finding a match it increments the reference count for the device
and returns it to the caller. However this reference is never released 
leading to a reference leak.

Fix this by decrementing the backlight device reference count on removal
via put_device and on probe failure.

Fixes: 93a0fc489481 ("HID: hid-appletb-kbd: add support for automatic brightness control while using the touchbar")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Qasim Ijaz <qasdev00@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/hid/hid-appletb-kbd.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-appletb-kbd.c b/drivers/hid/hid-appletb-kbd.c
index ef51b2c06872..e06567886e50 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/hid-appletb-kbd.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/hid-appletb-kbd.c
@@ -438,6 +438,8 @@ static int appletb_kbd_probe(struct hid_device *hdev, const struct hid_device_id
 	return 0;
 
 close_hw:
+	if (kbd->backlight_dev)
+		put_device(&kbd->backlight_dev->dev);
 	hid_hw_close(hdev);
 stop_hw:
 	hid_hw_stop(hdev);
@@ -453,6 +455,9 @@ static void appletb_kbd_remove(struct hid_device *hdev)
 	input_unregister_handler(&kbd->inp_handler);
 	timer_delete_sync(&kbd->inactivity_timer);
 
+	if (kbd->backlight_dev)
+		put_device(&kbd->backlight_dev->dev);
+
 	hid_hw_close(hdev);
 	hid_hw_stop(hdev);
 }
-- 
2.39.5


             reply	other threads:[~2025-06-15 22:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-06-15 22:59 Qasim Ijaz [this message]
2025-06-18 13:00 ` [PATCH] HID: appletb-kbd: fix "appletb_backlight" backlight device reference counting Aditya Garg
2025-06-20  7:01 ` Jiri Kosina

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