[PATCH] parisc: led: fix reference leak on failed device registration

From: Guangshuo Li

Date: Wed Apr 15 2026 - 13:17:03 EST


When platform_device_register() fails in startup_leds(), the embedded
struct device in platform_leds has already been initialized by
device_initialize(), but the failure path only reports the error and
does not drop the device reference for the current platform device:

startup_leds()
-> platform_device_register(&platform_leds)
-> device_initialize(&platform_leds.dev)
-> setup_pdev_dma_masks(&platform_leds)
-> platform_device_add(&platform_leds)

This leads to a reference leak when platform_device_register() fails.
Fix this by calling platform_device_put() after reporting the error.

The issue was identified by a static analysis tool I developed and
confirmed by manual review.

Fixes: 789e527adfc33 ("parisc: led: Rewrite LED/LCD driver to utilizize Linux LED subsystem")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Guangshuo Li <lgs201920130244@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/parisc/led.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/parisc/led.c b/drivers/parisc/led.c
index 016c9d5a60a8..b299fcc48b08 100644
--- a/drivers/parisc/led.c
+++ b/drivers/parisc/led.c
@@ -543,8 +543,10 @@ static void __init register_led_regions(void)

static int __init startup_leds(void)
{
- if (platform_device_register(&platform_leds))
- printk(KERN_INFO "LED: failed to register LEDs\n");
+ if (platform_device_register(&platform_leds)) {
+ pr_info("LED: failed to register LEDs\n");
+ platform_device_put(&platform_leds);
+ }
register_led_regions();
return 0;
}
--
2.43.0