[PATCH v2 2/4] backlight: max8925_bl: fix device-tree node lookup

[Daniel Thompson]

On 20/11/17 10:45, Johan Hovold wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Fixes: 47ec340cb8e2 ("mfd: max8925: Support dt for backlight")
> Cc: stable <stable at vger.kernel.org>     # 3.9
> Cc: Qing Xu <qingx at marvell.com>
> Cc: Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang at gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan at kernel.org>

Didn't I already ack this one?

Acked-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson at linaro.org>


> ---
>   drivers/video/backlight/max8925_bl.c | 4 +++-
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/max8925_bl.c b/drivers/video/backlight/max8925_bl.c
> index 7b738d60ecc2..f3aa6088f1d9 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/backlight/max8925_bl.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/backlight/max8925_bl.c
> @@ -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;
>   }
>   
>