[PATCH] video: backlight: sky81452-backlight: Fix reference count imbalance on error

[Lee Jones]

On Wed, 19 Aug 2020, Markus Elfring wrote:

> > When of_property_read_u32_array() returns an error code,
> > a pairing refcount decrement is needed to keep np's refcount balanced.
> 
> Can another imperative wording be helpful for the change description?
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst?id=18445bf405cb331117bc98427b1ba6f12418ad17#n151
> 
> Would an other commit message be a bit nicer?
> 
> 
> …
> > +++ b/drivers/video/backlight/sky81452-backlight.c
> > @@ -217,6 +217,7 @@ static struct sky81452_bl_platform_data *sky81452_bl_parse_dt(
> >  					num_entry);
> >  		if (ret < 0) {
> >  			dev_err(dev, "led-sources node is invalid.\n");
> > +			of_node_put(np);
> >  			return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
> >  		}
> 
> I propose to add the jump target “put_node” so that a bit of common exception
> handling code can be better reused at the end of this function implementation.
> 
> Regards,
> Markus

You can safely ignore any review comments from Markus!

However, this patch doesn't appear to be in my inbox.

Any ideas as to why?

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