backlight: max8925_bl: Fix Device Tree node lookup
authorJohan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Mon, 20 Nov 2017 10:45:45 +0000 (11:45 +0100)
committerLee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Mon, 11 Jun 2018 12:40:32 +0000 (13:40 +0100)
Fix child-node lookup during probe, which ended up searching the whole
device tree depth-first starting at the parent rather than just matching
on its children.

To make things worse, the parent mfd node was also prematurely freed,
while the child backlight node was leaked.

Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.9
Fixes: 47ec340cb8e2 ("mfd: max8925: Support dt for backlight")
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
drivers/video/backlight/max8925_bl.c

index 7b738d60ecc22e27560e42c9cef0669628e4aa28..f3aa6088f1d97805f23b9780a1db893cf1a46b00 100644 (file)
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ static void max8925_backlight_dt_init(struct platform_device *pdev)
        if (!pdata)
                return;
 
-       np = of_find_node_by_name(nproot, "backlight");
+       np = of_get_child_by_name(nproot, "backlight");
        if (!np) {
                dev_err(&pdev->dev, "failed to find backlight node\n");
                return;
@@ -125,6 +125,8 @@ static void max8925_backlight_dt_init(struct platform_device *pdev)
        if (!of_property_read_u32(np, "maxim,max8925-dual-string", &val))
                pdata->dual_string = val;
 
+       of_node_put(np);
+
        pdev->dev.platform_data = pdata;
 }