Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] gpio: mockup: fix resource leak in error path" failed to apply to 4.14-stable tree

[Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>]

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Hi Greg,

On Sun, Oct 04, 2020 at 12:37:11PM +0200, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> 
> The patch below does not apply to the 4.14-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>.

Here is the backport. Please consider for 4.14-stable.

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Regards
Sudip

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From 9c0dde685fd7e37a444a927fb9c9aca740444816 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2020 15:07:49 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] gpio: mockup: fix resource leak in error path

commit 1b02d9e770cd7087f34c743f85ccf5ea8372b047 upstream

If the module init function fails after creating the debugs directory,
it's never removed. Add proper cleanup calls to avoid this resource
leak.

Fixes: 9202ba2397d1 ("gpio: mockup: implement event injecting over debugfs")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
[sudip: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/gpio/gpio-mockup.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpio-mockup.c b/drivers/gpio/gpio-mockup.c
index d99c8d8da9a0..a09a1334afbf 100644
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpio-mockup.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-mockup.c
@@ -350,6 +350,7 @@ static int __init mock_device_init(void)
 	err = platform_driver_register(&gpio_mockup_driver);
 	if (err) {
 		platform_device_unregister(pdev);
+		debugfs_remove_recursive(gpio_mockup_dbg_dir);
 		return err;
 	}
 
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