[PATCH v4 6/8] backlight: led-backlight: add devlink to supplier LEDs

Luca Ceresoli luca.ceresoli at bootlin.com
Tue Sep 17 08:53:10 UTC 2024


led-backlight is a consumer of one or multiple LED class devices, but no
devlink is created for such supplier-producer relationship. One consequence
is that removal ordered is not correctly enforced.

Issues happen for example with the following sections in a device tree
overlay:

    // An LED driver chip
    pca9632 at 62 {
        compatible = "nxp,pca9632";
        reg = <0x62>;

	// ...

        addon_led_pwm: led-pwm at 3 {
            reg = <3>;
            label = "addon:led:pwm";
        };
    };

    backlight-addon {
        compatible = "led-backlight";
        leds = <&addon_led_pwm>;
        brightness-levels = <255>;
        default-brightness-level = <255>;
    };

On removal of the above overlay, the LED driver can be removed before the
backlight device, resulting in:

    Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000010
    ...
    Call trace:
     led_put+0xe0/0x140
     devm_led_release+0x6c/0x98

Fix by adding a devlink between the consuming led-backlight device and the
supplying LED device.

Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli at bootlin.com>

---

This patch first appeared in v4.
---
 drivers/video/backlight/led_bl.c | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/led_bl.c b/drivers/video/backlight/led_bl.c
index c7aefcd6e4e3..bfbd80728036 100644
--- a/drivers/video/backlight/led_bl.c
+++ b/drivers/video/backlight/led_bl.c
@@ -209,6 +209,19 @@ static int led_bl_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 		return PTR_ERR(priv->bl_dev);
 	}
 
+	for (i = 0; i < priv->nb_leds; i++) {
+		struct device_link *link;
+
+		link = device_link_add(&pdev->dev, priv->leds[0]->dev->parent,
+				       DL_FLAG_AUTOREMOVE_CONSUMER);
+		if (!link) {
+			dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Failed to add devlink (consumer %s, supplier %s)\n",
+				dev_name(&pdev->dev), dev_name(priv->leds[0]->dev->parent));
+			backlight_device_unregister(priv->bl_dev);
+			return -EINVAL;
+		}
+	}
+
 	for (i = 0; i < priv->nb_leds; i++) {
 		mutex_lock(&priv->leds[i]->led_access);
 		led_sysfs_disable(priv->leds[i]);

-- 
2.34.1



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