FAILED: patch "[PATCH] drm/imx/tve: fix probe device leak" failed to apply to 6.1-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 6.1-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>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.1.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x e535c23513c63f02f67e3e09e0787907029efeaf
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2026020322-mascot-usage-c825@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.1.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:



thanks,

greg k-h

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

From e535c23513c63f02f67e3e09e0787907029efeaf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2025 17:34:56 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] drm/imx/tve: fix probe device leak

Make sure to drop the reference taken to the DDC device during probe on
probe failure (e.g. probe deferral) and on driver unbind.

Fixes: fcbc51e54d2a ("staging: drm/imx: Add support for Television Encoder (TVEv2)")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org	# 3.10
Cc: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frank Li <Frank.Li@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251030163456.15807-1-johan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/imx/ipuv3/imx-tve.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/imx/ipuv3/imx-tve.c
index c5c6e070cc06..e861b8b9d8fa 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/imx/ipuv3/imx-tve.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/imx/ipuv3/imx-tve.c
@@ -528,6 +528,13 @@ static const struct component_ops imx_tve_ops = {
 	.bind	= imx_tve_bind,
 };
 
+static void imx_tve_put_device(void *_dev)
+{
+	struct device *dev = _dev;
+
+	put_device(dev);
+}
+
 static int imx_tve_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 {
 	struct device *dev = &pdev->dev;
@@ -549,6 +556,12 @@ static int imx_tve_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	if (ddc_node) {
 		tve->ddc = of_find_i2c_adapter_by_node(ddc_node);
 		of_node_put(ddc_node);
+		if (tve->ddc) {
+			ret = devm_add_action_or_reset(dev, imx_tve_put_device,
+						       &tve->ddc->dev);
+			if (ret)
+				return ret;
+		}
 	}
 
 	tve->mode = of_get_tve_mode(np);