Re: [PATCH] leds: gpio: Fix device teardown on probe deferral

[Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com>]

On 04/15/2015 11:11 AM, Jacek Anaszewski wrote:
> On 04/14/2015 11:23 PM, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:
>> In gpio_leds_create(), when devm_get_gpiod_from_child() fails with
>> -EPROBE_DEFER on the second gpio led to be created, the first already
>> registered led is not torn down properly. This causes create_gpio_led()
>> to fail for the first led on re-probe().
>>
>> Fix this misbehaviour by incrementing num_leds only if all
>> potentially failing calls completed successfully.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com>
>> ---
>> Cc: Bryan Wu <cooloney@gmail.com>
>> Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
>> Cc: linux-leds@vger.kernel.org
>> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
>> ---
>>   drivers/leds/leds-gpio.c | 5 +++--
>>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> For this patch:
>
> Acked-by: Jacek Anaszewski <j.anaszewski@samsung.com>

Jacek, Thanks!

> I have a question regarding the sequence above on line 201:
>
> if (!led.name)
>      return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
>
> Shouldn't this be also 'goto err"?

Yes, every error within the loop has to goto the err label.
Mind to send a patch fixing it?

Sebastian