[PATCH 6.12 287/567] hwmon: (max6697) fix regmap leak on probe failure

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-01-06T17:30:01Z

From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>

commit 02f0ad8e8de8cf5344f8f0fa26d9529b8339da47 upstream.

The i2c regmap allocated during probe is never freed.

Switch to using the device managed allocator so that the regmap is
released on probe failures (e.g. probe deferral) and on driver unbind.

Fixes: 3a2a8cc3fe24 ("hwmon: (max6697) Convert to use regmap")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.12
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251127134351.1585-1-johan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/hwmon/max6697.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/hwmon/max6697.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/max6697.c
@@ -548,7 +548,7 @@ static int max6697_probe(struct i2c_clie
struct regmap *regmap;
int err;

- regmap = regmap_init_i2c(client, &max6697_regmap_config);
+ regmap = devm_regmap_init_i2c(client, &max6697_regmap_config);
if (IS_ERR(regmap))
return PTR_ERR(regmap);