[PATCH 06/10] leds: class: Take the LED access lock when reading brightness_hw_changed

From: Armin Wolf

Date: Sun Oct 18 2026 - 09:54:34 EST


Reading the brightness_hw_changed field needs to be guarded against
concurrent writes by led_classdev_notify_brightness_hw_changed().

Signed-off-by: Armin Wolf <W_Armin@xxxxxx>
---
drivers/leds/led-class.c | 9 +++++++--
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/leds/led-class.c b/drivers/leds/led-class.c
index e1f1b710536b..77a0fce03952 100644
--- a/drivers/leds/led-class.c
+++ b/drivers/leds/led-class.c
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
* Copyright (C) 2005-2007 Richard Purdie <rpurdie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
*/

+#include <linux/cleanup.h>
#include <linux/ctype.h>
#include <linux/device.h>
#include <linux/err.h>
@@ -102,11 +103,15 @@ static ssize_t brightness_hw_changed_show(struct device *dev, const struct devic
char *buf)
{
struct led_classdev *led_cdev = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
+ unsigned int brightness_hw_changed;

- if (led_cdev->brightness_hw_changed == -1)
+ scoped_guard(mutex, &led_cdev->led_access)
+ brightness_hw_changed = led_cdev->brightness_hw_changed;
+
+ if (brightness_hw_changed == -1)
return -ENODATA;

- return sysfs_emit(buf, "%u\n", led_cdev->brightness_hw_changed);
+ return sysfs_emit(buf, "%u\n", brightness_hw_changed);
}

static const DEVICE_ATTR_RO(brightness_hw_changed);
--
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