Subject: patch "nvmem: core: fix error handling while validating keepout regions" added to char-misc-testing
To:     srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
        stable@vger.kernel.org
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Date:   Fri, 06 Aug 2021 15:37:31 +0200
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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    nvmem: core: fix error handling while validating keepout regions

to my char-misc git tree which can be found at
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.git
in the char-misc-testing branch.

The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree
(usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)

The patch will be merged to the char-misc-next branch sometime soon,
after it passes testing, and the merge window is open.

If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.


From de0534df93474f268486c486ea7e01b44a478026 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org>
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2021 09:59:47 +0100
Subject: nvmem: core: fix error handling while validating keepout regions

Current error path on failure of validating keepout regions is calling
put_device, eventhough the device is not even registered at that point.

Fix this by adding proper error handling of freeing ida and nvmem.

Fixes: fd3bb8f54a88 ("nvmem: core: Add support for keepout regions")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210806085947.22682-5-srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/nvmem/core.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/nvmem/core.c b/drivers/nvmem/core.c
index b3bc30a04ed7..3d87fadaa160 100644
--- a/drivers/nvmem/core.c
+++ b/drivers/nvmem/core.c
@@ -824,8 +824,11 @@ struct nvmem_device *nvmem_register(const struct nvmem_config *config)
 
 	if (nvmem->nkeepout) {
 		rval = nvmem_validate_keepouts(nvmem);
-		if (rval)
-			goto err_put_device;
+		if (rval) {
+			ida_free(&nvmem_ida, nvmem->id);
+			kfree(nvmem);
+			return ERR_PTR(rval);
+		}
 	}
 
 	dev_dbg(&nvmem->dev, "Registering nvmem device %s\n", config->name);
-- 
2.32.0