Patch "firmware: vpd: Tie firmware kobject to device lifetime" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

firmware: vpd: Tie firmware kobject to device lifetime

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
firmware-vpd-tie-firmware-kobject-to-device-lifetime.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Guenter Roeck <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 13:00:44 -0800
Subject: firmware: vpd: Tie firmware kobject to device lifetime

From: Guenter Roeck <[email protected]>

commit e4b28b3c3a405b251fa25db58abe1512814a680a upstream.

It doesn't make sense to have /sys/firmware/vpd if the device is not instantiated, so tie its lifetime to the device.

---
 drivers/firmware/google/vpd.c |   19 +++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

@@ -295,7 +295,17 @@ static int vpd_probe(struct platform_dev
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
 
-	return vpd_sections_init(entry.cbmem_addr);
+	vpd_kobj = kobject_create_and_add("vpd", firmware_kobj);
+	if (!vpd_kobj)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
+	ret = vpd_sections_init(entry.cbmem_addr);
+	if (ret) {
+		kobject_put(vpd_kobj);
+		return ret;
+	}
+
+	return 0;
 }
 
 static int vpd_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)

@@ -303,6 +313,8 @@ static int vpd_remove(struct platform_de
 	vpd_section_destroy(&ro_vpd);
 	vpd_section_destroy(&rw_vpd);
 
+	kobject_put(vpd_kobj);
+
 	return 0;
 }
 

@@ -322,10 +334,6 @@ static int __init vpd_platform_init(void
 	if (IS_ERR(pdev))
 		return PTR_ERR(pdev);
 
-	vpd_kobj = kobject_create_and_add("vpd", firmware_kobj);
-	if (!vpd_kobj)
-		return -ENOMEM;
-
 	platform_driver_register(&vpd_driver);
 
 	return 0;

@@ -333,7 +341,6 @@ static int __init vpd_platform_init(void
 
 static void __exit vpd_platform_exit(void)
 {
-	kobject_put(vpd_kobj);
 }
 
 module_init(vpd_platform_init);

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.14/firmware-vpd-fix-platform-driver-and-device-registration-unregistration.patch queue-4.14/firmware-vpd-destroy-vpd-sections-in-remove-function.patch queue-4.14/firmware-vpd-tie-firmware-kobject-to-device-lifetime.patch