Re: [PATCH] mtd: rawnand: lpc32xx_slc: fix GPIO descriptor leak on probe error and remove

[Vladimir Zapolskiy <vz@mleia.com>]

On 10/28/25 11:47, Haotian Zhang wrote:
> The driver calls gpiod_get_optional() in the probe function but
> never calls gpiod_put() in the remove function or in the probe
> error path. This leads to a GPIO descriptor resource leak.
> The lpc32xx_mlc.c driver in the same directory handles this
> correctly by calling gpiod_put() on both paths.
> 
> Add gpiod_put() in the remove function and in the probe error path
> to fix the resource leak.
> 
> Fixes: 6b923db2867c ("mtd: rawnand: lpc32xx_slc: switch to using gpiod API")
> Signed-off-by: Haotian Zhang <vulab@iscas.ac.cn>

The problem is well identified, thank you for the fix.

> ---
>   drivers/mtd/nand/raw/lpc32xx_slc.c | 2 ++
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/lpc32xx_slc.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/lpc32xx_slc.c
> index b54d76547ffb..fea3705a2138 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/lpc32xx_slc.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/lpc32xx_slc.c
> @@ -937,6 +937,7 @@ static int lpc32xx_nand_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>   	dma_release_channel(host->dma_chan);
>   enable_wp:
>   	lpc32xx_wp_enable(host);
> +	gpiod_put(host->wp_gpio);
>   
>   	return res;
>   }
> @@ -962,6 +963,7 @@ static void lpc32xx_nand_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>   	writel(tmp, SLC_CTRL(host->io_base));
>   
>   	lpc32xx_wp_enable(host);
> +	gpiod_put(host->wp_gpio);
>   }
>   
>   static int lpc32xx_nand_resume(struct platform_device *pdev)

The fix can be greatly improved though, I kindly ask you to send v2 by switching
from gpiod_get_optional() to resource managed devm_gpiod_get_optional().

Thank you in advance.

-- 
Best wishes,
Vladimir