[PATCH] pinctrl: bcm2835: Don't remove an unregistered GPIO chip

Daniel McCarthy daniel at dragonzap.com
Wed Jun 17 15:04:51 PDT 2026


If the devm_pinctrl_register() function fails,
bcm2835_pinctrl_probe() calls gpiochip_remove()
before gpiochip_add_data() has registered the GPIO chip.

This means that upon failure the gpio_chip.gpiodev
 is NULL resulting in a null pointer dereference
inside the gpiochip_remove() function.

Remove the unnecessary function call to gpiochip_remove().
No GPIO cleanup is required because the GPIO chip
has not yet been registered. Without this change there
is potential for a kernel panic upon registration failure

Fixes: 266423e60ea1 ("pinctrl: bcm2835: Change init order for gpio hogs")
Signed-off-by: Daniel McCarthy <daniel at dragonzap.com>
---
 drivers/pinctrl/bcm/pinctrl-bcm2835.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/pinctrl/bcm/pinctrl-bcm2835.c b/drivers/pinctrl/bcm/pinctrl-bcm2835.c
index e7b35019a5a7..725e880ae086 100644
--- a/drivers/pinctrl/bcm/pinctrl-bcm2835.c
+++ b/drivers/pinctrl/bcm/pinctrl-bcm2835.c
@@ -1350,7 +1350,6 @@ static int bcm2835_pinctrl_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	pc->pctl_desc = *pdata->pctl_desc;
 	pc->pctl_dev = devm_pinctrl_register(dev, &pc->pctl_desc, pc);
 	if (IS_ERR(pc->pctl_dev)) {
-		gpiochip_remove(&pc->gpio_chip);
 		return PTR_ERR(pc->pctl_dev);
 	}
 
-- 
2.53.0




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