FAILED: patch "[PATCH] media: lirc: Fix error handling in lirc_register()" failed to apply to 5.15-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 5.15-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-5.15.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 4f4098c57e139ad972154077fb45c3e3141555dd
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2025101607-boring-luminance-9766@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.15.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:



thanks,

greg k-h

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

From 4f4098c57e139ad972154077fb45c3e3141555dd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ma Ke <make24@iscas.ac.cn>
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2025 17:50:54 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] media: lirc: Fix error handling in lirc_register()

When cdev_device_add() failed, calling put_device() to explicitly
release dev->lirc_dev. Otherwise, it could cause the fault of the
reference count.

Found by code review.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: a6ddd4fecbb0 ("media: lirc: remove last remnants of lirc kapi")
Signed-off-by: Ma Ke <make24@iscas.ac.cn>
Signed-off-by: Sean Young <sean@mess.org>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org>

diff --git a/drivers/media/rc/lirc_dev.c b/drivers/media/rc/lirc_dev.c
index a2257dc2f25d..7d4942925993 100644
--- a/drivers/media/rc/lirc_dev.c
+++ b/drivers/media/rc/lirc_dev.c
@@ -736,11 +736,11 @@ int lirc_register(struct rc_dev *dev)
 
 	cdev_init(&dev->lirc_cdev, &lirc_fops);
 
+	get_device(&dev->dev);
+
 	err = cdev_device_add(&dev->lirc_cdev, &dev->lirc_dev);
 	if (err)
-		goto out_ida;
-
-	get_device(&dev->dev);
+		goto out_put_device;
 
 	switch (dev->driver_type) {
 	case RC_DRIVER_SCANCODE:
@@ -764,7 +764,8 @@ int lirc_register(struct rc_dev *dev)
 
 	return 0;
 
-out_ida:
+out_put_device:
+	put_device(&dev->lirc_dev);
 	ida_free(&lirc_ida, minor);
 	return err;
 }