Re: [PATCH v1 02/10] ACPI: video: Fix backlight unregistration ordering

From: Rafael J. Wysocki (Intel)

Date: Fri Sep 11 2026 - 12:44:32 EST


On Fri, Sep 11, 2026 at 6:27 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2026 at 03:01:30PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>
> > In acpi_video_dev_unregister_backlight(), the sysfs interface of the
> > cooling class device may access the brightness object under the
> > backlight device's ACPI companion, so that object cannot be freed
> > before unregistering the cooling class device.
> >
> > Adjust the code to take that into account.
> >
> > Fixes:
>
> Fixes?

I thought I added it, but clearly I didn't.

It should be

Fixes: 67b662e189f4 ("ACPI / video: seperate backlight control and
event interface")

> > Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>

Will fix when applying unless there will be a v2.

Thanks!