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backlight: led-bl: Add devlink to supplier LEDs
authorLuca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com>
Mon, 19 May 2025 20:19:11 +0000 (22:19 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 18 Dec 2025 13:03:17 +0000 (14:03 +0100)
commit08c9dc6b0f2c68e5e7c374ac4499e321e435d46c
tree4e15ea5eee29d5170ea8f5ecb4d5a31405f15c48
parentad26a7ef04882d26dfb365335baacfbd8be97f21
backlight: led-bl: Add devlink to supplier LEDs

[ Upstream commit 9341d6698f4cfdfc374fb6944158d111ebe16a9d ]

LED Backlight is a consumer of one or multiple LED class devices, but
devlink is currently unable to create correct supplier-producer links when
the supplier is a class device. It creates instead a link where the
supplier is the parent of the expected device.

One consequence is that removal order is not correctly enforced.

Issues happen for example with the following sections in a device tree
overlay:

    // An LED driver chip
    pca9632@62 {
        compatible = "nxp,pca9632";
        reg = <0x62>;

// ...

        addon_led_pwm: led-pwm@3 {
            reg = <3>;
            label = "addon:led:pwm";
        };
    };

    backlight-addon {
        compatible = "led-backlight";
        leds = <&addon_led_pwm>;
        brightness-levels = <255>;
        default-brightness-level = <255>;
    };

In this example, the devlink should be created between the backlight-addon
(consumer) and the pca9632@62 (supplier). Instead it is created between the
backlight-addon (consumer) and the parent of the pca9632@62, which is
typically the I2C bus adapter.

On removal of the above overlay, the LED driver can be removed before the
backlight device, resulting in:

    Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000010
    ...
    Call trace:
     led_put+0xe0/0x140
     devm_led_release+0x6c/0x98

Another way to reproduce the bug without any device tree overlays is
unbinding the LED class device (pca9632@62) before unbinding the consumer
(backlight-addon):

  echo 11-0062 >/sys/bus/i2c/drivers/leds-pca963x/unbind
  echo ...backlight-dock >/sys/bus/platform/drivers/led-backlight/unbind

Fix by adding a devlink between the consuming led-backlight device and the
supplying LED device, as other drivers and subsystems do as well.

Fixes: ae232e45acf9 ("backlight: add led-backlight driver")
Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson (RISCstar) <danielt@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Herve Codina <herve.codina@bootlin.com>
Tested-by: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@siemens.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250519-led-backlight-add-devlink-to-supplier-class-device-v6-1-845224aeb2ce@bootlin.com
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
drivers/video/backlight/led_bl.c