[PATCH 4.9 11/30] gpio: No NULL owner

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

4.9-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 7d18f0a14aa6a0d6bad39111c1fb655f07f71d59 upstream.

Sometimes a GPIO is fetched with NULL as parent device, and
that is just fine. So under these circumstances, avoid using
dev_name() to provide a name for the GPIO line.

Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Daniel Rosenberg <drosen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c |    9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
@@ -3204,6 +3204,8 @@ struct gpio_desc *__must_check gpiod_get
 	struct gpio_desc *desc = NULL;
 	int status;
 	enum gpio_lookup_flags lookupflags = 0;
+	/* Maybe we have a device name, maybe not */
+	const char *devname = dev ? dev_name(dev) : "?";
 
 	dev_dbg(dev, "GPIO lookup for consumer %s\n", con_id);
 
@@ -3232,8 +3234,11 @@ struct gpio_desc *__must_check gpiod_get
 		return desc;
 	}
 
-	/* If a connection label was passed use that, else use the device name as label */
-	status = gpiod_request(desc, con_id ? con_id : dev_name(dev));
+	/*
+	 * If a connection label was passed use that, else attempt to use
+	 * the device name as label
+	 */
+	status = gpiod_request(desc, con_id ? con_id : devname);
 	if (status < 0)
 		return ERR_PTR(status);