Re: [PATCH 5.10,5.15,6.1,6.6 RESEND] leds: spi-byte: Initialize device node before access

[Lee Jones]

On Fri, 02 Jan 2026, Andy Shevchenko wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 30, 2025 at 04:45:11PM -0800, Tiffany Yang wrote:
> > Commit 7f9ab862e05c ("leds: spi-byte: Call of_node_put() on error path")
> > was merged in 6.11 and then backported to stable trees through 5.10. It
> > relocates the line that initializes the variable 'child' to a later
> > point in spi_byte_probe().
> > 
> > Versions < 6.9 do not have commit ccc35ff2fd29 ("leds: spi-byte: Use
> > devm_led_classdev_register_ext()"), which removes a line that reads a
> > property from 'child' before its new initialization point. Consequently,
> > spi_byte_probe() reads from an uninitialized device node in stable
> > kernels 6.6-5.10.
> 
> I'm wondering if in long term the easier maintenance will be with that patch
> also being backported rather than this being applied.

Works for me.

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Lee Jones [李琼斯]