[PATCH v2 0/4] backlight: fix device-tree node lookups

Johan Hovold johan at kernel.org
Mon Nov 20 10:45:43 UTC 2017


A number of drivers have been using the wrong OF helper when doing child-node
lookups during probe. This meant that they were doing tree-wide searches rather
than matching on child nodes and that the parent node could end up being
prematurely freed.

Johan

v2
 - add patch 4/4 which fixes two node leaks in as3711_bl instead of marking
   the leaks using FIXMEs in patch 1/4


Johan Hovold (4):
  backlight: as3711_bl: fix device-tree node lookup
  backlight: max8925_bl: fix device-tree node lookup
  backlight: tps65217_bl: fix device-tree node lookup
  backlight: as3711_bl: fix device-tree node leaks

 drivers/video/backlight/as3711_bl.c   | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
 drivers/video/backlight/max8925_bl.c  |  4 +++-
 drivers/video/backlight/tps65217_bl.c |  4 ++--
 include/linux/mfd/as3711.h            |  4 ++--
 4 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

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2.15.0



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