Re: [PATCH v2] ASoC: Intel: atom: Fix platform device leak on probe failure

From: Cezary Rojewski

Date: Thu Sep 24 2026 - 14:41:23 EST


On 9/24/2026 3:49 PM, Guangshuo Li wrote:
> sst_acpi_probe() registers platform devices for the SST platform and
> machine board using platform_device_register_data(), but does not
> unregister them when later probe steps fail.
>
> Fixes: caf94ed8629a ("ASoC: Intel: bytcr_rt5640: fixup DAI codec_name with HID")
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Guangshuo Li <lgs201920130244@xxxxxxxxx>

Below nitpicks are not a must. Thank you for the update:

Acked-by: Cezary Rojewski <cezary.rojewski@xxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> v2:
> - Use devm_add_action_or_reset() to clean up the platform devices on
> probe failure and driver removal, as suggested by Cezary Rojewski.
> - Update the subsystem prefix and shorten the commit message.
>
> sound/soc/intel/atom/sst/sst_acpi.c | 14 +++++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/sound/soc/intel/atom/sst/sst_acpi.c b/sound/soc/intel/atom/sst/sst_acpi.c
> index 73624e1b138a..de1ad168008b 100644
> --- a/sound/soc/intel/atom/sst/sst_acpi.c
> +++ b/sound/soc/intel/atom/sst/sst_acpi.c
> @@ -254,6 +254,11 @@ static int sst_platform_get_resources(struct intel_sst_drv *ctx)
> return 0;
> }
>
> +static void sst_unregister_platform_device(void *data)
> +{
> + platform_device_unregister(data);
> +}
> +
> static int sst_acpi_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> {
> struct device *dev = &pdev->dev;
> @@ -342,7 +347,10 @@ static int sst_acpi_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> pdata->platform);
> return PTR_ERR(plat_dev);
> }
> -
> + ret = devm_add_action_or_reset(dev, sst_unregister_platform_device,
> + plat_dev);

Nitpick: No reason for newline here, fits 100-char limit nicely.

> + if (ret)
> + return ret;
> /*
> * Create platform device for sst machine driver,
> * pass machine info as pdata
> @@ -355,6 +363,10 @@ static int sst_acpi_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> return PTR_ERR(mdev);
> }
>
> + ret = devm_add_action_or_reset(dev, sst_unregister_platform_device,
> + mdev);

Ditto.

> + if (ret)
> + return ret;
> /* Fill sst platform data */
> ctx->pdata = pdata;
> strscpy(ctx->firmware_name, mach->fw_filename);