Re: [PATCH] iio: proximity: pulsedlight: fix iio_device left registered on PM setup failure

[Joshua Crofts <joshua.crofts1@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 28 Aug 2026 17:59:09 +0700
Cong Nguyen <congnt264@gmail.com> wrote:

> pm_runtime_set_active() failing in probe() jumps to error_unreg_buffer,
> which only calls iio_triggered_buffer_cleanup() -- it does not undo the
> iio_device_register() that already succeeded a few lines above. probe()
> then returns the error, the devm-managed indio_dev is freed, but the
> iio core still has it registered: the sysfs/chardev nodes stay live and
> point at freed memory.
> 
> Add an error_unreg_dev label that unregisters the iio device before
> falling through to the existing buffer cleanup, mirroring the teardown
> order already used in lidar_remove().
> 
> Fixes: 4ac4e086fd8c ("iio: pulsedlight-lidar-lite: add runtime PM")
> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4
> Signed-off-by: Cong Nguyen <congnt264@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/iio/proximity/pulsedlight-lidar-lite-v2.c | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/iio/proximity/pulsedlight-lidar-lite-v2.c b/drivers/iio/proximity/pulsedlight-lidar-lite-v2.c
> index 400477b4c740..8a9ee21f2bf6 100644
> --- a/drivers/iio/proximity/pulsedlight-lidar-lite-v2.c
> +++ b/drivers/iio/proximity/pulsedlight-lidar-lite-v2.c
> @@ -294,12 +294,14 @@ static int lidar_probe(struct i2c_client *client)
>  
>  	ret = pm_runtime_set_active(&client->dev);
>  	if (ret)
> -		goto error_unreg_buffer;
> +		goto error_unreg_dev;
>  	pm_runtime_enable(&client->dev);
>  	pm_runtime_idle(&client->dev);
>  
>  	return 0;

Hmm, you should just return iio_device_register() here instead of 0,
as that should always be the last function called in any *_probe()
function.

No need to add a new label then.

> +error_unreg_dev:
> +	iio_device_unregister(indio_dev);
>  error_unreg_buffer:
>  	iio_triggered_buffer_cleanup(indio_dev);
>  

-- 
Kind regards,
Joshua Crofts