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

firmware: vpd: Fix platform driver and device registration/unregistration

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: firmware-vpd-fix-platform-driver-and-device-registration-unregistration.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 stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From 0631fb8b027f5968c2f5031f0b3ff7be3e4bebcc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Guenter Roeck linux@roeck-us.net Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 13:00:45 -0800 Subject: firmware: vpd: Fix platform driver and device registration/unregistration

From: Guenter Roeck linux@roeck-us.net

commit 0631fb8b027f5968c2f5031f0b3ff7be3e4bebcc upstream.

The driver exit function needs to unregister both platform device and driver. Also, during registration, register driver first and perform error checks.

Fixes: 049a59db34eb ("firmware: Google VPD sysfs driver") Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck linux@roeck-us.net Tested-by: Randy Dunlap rdunlap@infradead.org Reviewed-by: Dmitry Torokhov dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- drivers/firmware/google/vpd.c | 20 ++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/firmware/google/vpd.c +++ b/drivers/firmware/google/vpd.c @@ -326,21 +326,29 @@ static struct platform_driver vpd_driver }, };

+static struct platform_device *vpd_pdev; + static int __init vpd_platform_init(void) { - struct platform_device *pdev; - - pdev = platform_device_register_simple("vpd", -1, NULL, 0); - if (IS_ERR(pdev)) - return PTR_ERR(pdev); + int ret;

- platform_driver_register(&vpd_driver); + ret = platform_driver_register(&vpd_driver); + if (ret) + return ret; + + vpd_pdev = platform_device_register_simple("vpd", -1, NULL, 0); + if (IS_ERR(vpd_pdev)) { + platform_driver_unregister(&vpd_driver); + return PTR_ERR(vpd_pdev); + }

return 0; }

static void __exit vpd_platform_exit(void) { + platform_device_unregister(vpd_pdev); + platform_driver_unregister(&vpd_driver); }

module_init(vpd_platform_init);

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from linux@roeck-us.net 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