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backlight: led-bl: Add devlink to supplier LEDs
LED Backlight is a consumer of one or multiple LED class devices, but devlink is currently unable to create correct supplier-producer links when the supplier is a class device. It creates instead a link where the supplier is the parent of the expected device. One consequence is that removal order is not correctly enforced. Issues happen for example with the following sections in a device tree overlay: // An LED driver chip pca9632@62 { compatible = "nxp,pca9632"; reg = <0x62>; // ... addon_led_pwm: led-pwm@3 { reg = <3>; label = "addon:led:pwm"; }; }; backlight-addon { compatible = "led-backlight"; leds = <&addon_led_pwm>; brightness-levels = <255>; default-brightness-level = <255>; }; In this example, the devlink should be created between the backlight-addon (consumer) and the pca9632@62 (supplier). Instead it is created between the backlight-addon (consumer) and the parent of the pca9632@62, which is typically the I2C bus adapter. 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 Another way to reproduce the bug without any device tree overlays is unbinding the LED class device (pca9632@62) before unbinding the consumer (backlight-addon): echo 11-0062 >/sys/bus/i2c/drivers/leds-pca963x/unbind echo ...backlight-dock >/sys/bus/platform/drivers/led-backlight/unbind Fix by adding a devlink between the consuming led-backlight device and the supplying LED device, as other drivers and subsystems do as well. Fixes: ae232e4 ("backlight: add led-backlight driver") Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson (RISCstar) <danielt@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Herve Codina <herve.codina@bootlin.com> Tested-by: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@siemens.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250519-led-backlight-add-devlink-to-supplier-class-device-v6-1-845224aeb2ce@bootlin.com Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
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drivers/video/backlight/led_bl.c

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@@ -210,6 +210,19 @@ static int led_bl_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
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return PTR_ERR(priv->bl_dev);
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}
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for (i = 0; i < priv->nb_leds; i++) {
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struct device_link *link;
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link = device_link_add(&pdev->dev, priv->leds[i]->dev->parent,
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DL_FLAG_AUTOREMOVE_CONSUMER);
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if (!link) {
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dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Failed to add devlink (consumer %s, supplier %s)\n",
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dev_name(&pdev->dev), dev_name(priv->leds[i]->dev->parent));
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backlight_device_unregister(priv->bl_dev);
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return -EINVAL;
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}
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}
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for (i = 0; i < priv->nb_leds; i++) {
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mutex_lock(&priv->leds[i]->led_access);
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led_sysfs_disable(priv->leds[i]);

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