[PATCH v3 05/10] i2c: core: fix adapter debugfs creation
From: Johan Hovold
Date: Mon May 11 2026 - 10:43:53 EST
Clients can be registered from bus notifier callbacks so the debugfs
directory needs to be created before registering the adapter as clients
use that directory as their debugfs parent.
Move debugfs creation before adapter registration to avoid having
clients create their debugfs directories in the debugfs root (which is
also more likely to fail due to name collisions).
Note that failure to allocate the adapter name must now be handled
explicitly as debugfs_create_dir() cannot handle a NULL name (unlike
device_add() which returns an error).
Fixes: 73febd775bdb ("i2c: create debugfs entry per adapter")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 6.8
Cc: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c | 16 ++++++++++------
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c
index 1caaa3b3ee10..25d66de41287 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c
@@ -1557,7 +1557,10 @@ static int i2c_register_adapter(struct i2c_adapter *adap)
goto out_list;
}
- dev_set_name(&adap->dev, "i2c-%d", adap->nr);
+ res = dev_set_name(&adap->dev, "i2c-%d", adap->nr);
+ if (res)
+ goto err_remove_irq_domain;
+
adap->dev.bus = &i2c_bus_type;
adap->dev.type = &i2c_adapter_type;
device_initialize(&adap->dev);
@@ -1575,14 +1578,14 @@ static int i2c_register_adapter(struct i2c_adapter *adap)
pm_suspend_ignore_children(&adap->dev, true);
pm_runtime_enable(&adap->dev);
+ adap->debugfs = debugfs_create_dir(dev_name(&adap->dev), i2c_debugfs_root);
+
res = device_add(&adap->dev);
if (res) {
pr_err("adapter '%s': can't register device (%d)\n", adap->name, res);
- goto err_put_adap;
+ goto err_remove_debugfs;
}
- adap->debugfs = debugfs_create_dir(dev_name(&adap->dev), i2c_debugfs_root);
-
res = i2c_setup_smbus_alert(adap);
if (res)
goto out_reg;
@@ -1606,13 +1609,14 @@ static int i2c_register_adapter(struct i2c_adapter *adap)
out_reg:
i2c_deregister_clients(adap);
- debugfs_remove_recursive(adap->debugfs);
device_del(&adap->dev);
+err_remove_debugfs:
+ debugfs_remove_recursive(adap->debugfs);
err_put_adap:
init_completion(&adap->dev_released);
put_device(&adap->dev);
wait_for_completion(&adap->dev_released);
-
+err_remove_irq_domain:
i2c_host_notify_irq_teardown(adap);
out_list:
mutex_lock(&core_lock);
--
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