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

[Tiffany Yang]

Lee Jones <lee@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 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.

Makes sense to me too! Thanks everyone for taking a look, and thanks to
Fedor for originally suggesting this :)

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Tiffany Y. Yang