From: Guangshuo Li <lgs201920130244@gmail.com>
To: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>,
linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Guangshuo Li <lgs201920130244@gmail.com>, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] parisc: led: fix reference leak on failed device registration
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2026 01:05:15 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260415170515.3605095-1-lgs201920130244@gmail.com> (raw)
When platform_device_register() fails in startup_leds(), the embedded
struct device in platform_leds has already been initialized by
device_initialize(), but the failure path only reports the error and
does not drop the device reference for the current platform device:
startup_leds()
-> platform_device_register(&platform_leds)
-> device_initialize(&platform_leds.dev)
-> setup_pdev_dma_masks(&platform_leds)
-> platform_device_add(&platform_leds)
This leads to a reference leak when platform_device_register() fails.
Fix this by calling platform_device_put() after reporting the error.
The issue was identified by a static analysis tool I developed and
confirmed by manual review.
Fixes: 789e527adfc33 ("parisc: led: Rewrite LED/LCD driver to utilizize Linux LED subsystem")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Guangshuo Li <lgs201920130244@gmail.com>
---
drivers/parisc/led.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/parisc/led.c b/drivers/parisc/led.c
index 016c9d5a60a8..b299fcc48b08 100644
--- a/drivers/parisc/led.c
+++ b/drivers/parisc/led.c
@@ -543,8 +543,10 @@ static void __init register_led_regions(void)
static int __init startup_leds(void)
{
- if (platform_device_register(&platform_leds))
- printk(KERN_INFO "LED: failed to register LEDs\n");
+ if (platform_device_register(&platform_leds)) {
+ pr_info("LED: failed to register LEDs\n");
+ platform_device_put(&platform_leds);
+ }
register_led_regions();
return 0;
}
--
2.43.0
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