[PATCH] regulator: fixed: Rely on the core freeing the enable GPIO

[Diederik de Haas]

On Thu Dec 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM CET, Mark Brown wrote:

s/enable GPIO/enabled GPIOs/ ? (in Subject)

> In order to simplify ownership rules for enable GPIOs supplied by drivers
> regulator_register() always takes ownership of them, even if it ends up
> failing for some other reason. We therefore should	not free the GPIO if
> registration fails but just let the core worry about things.

I built a 6.18 kernel with this patch added and that fixed the problem.
Thanks :-) Feel free to add:

Tested-by: Diederik de Haas <diederik at cknow-tech.com>

Cheers,
  Diederik

> Fixes: 636f4618b1cd (regulator: fixed: fix GPIO descriptor leak on register failure)
> Reported-by: Diederik de Haas <diederik at cknow-tech.com>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/DEPEYUF5BRGY.UKFBWRRE8HNP@cknow-tech.com
> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>
> ---
>  drivers/regulator/fixed.c | 11 ++++-------
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/regulator/fixed.c b/drivers/regulator/fixed.c
> index a2d16e9abfb5..254c0a8a4555 100644
> --- a/drivers/regulator/fixed.c
> +++ b/drivers/regulator/fixed.c
> @@ -330,13 +330,10 @@ static int reg_fixed_voltage_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  
>  	drvdata->dev = devm_regulator_register(&pdev->dev, &drvdata->desc,
>  					       &cfg);
> -	if (IS_ERR(drvdata->dev)) {
> -		ret = dev_err_probe(&pdev->dev, PTR_ERR(drvdata->dev),
> -				    "Failed to register regulator: %ld\n",
> -				    PTR_ERR(drvdata->dev));
> -		gpiod_put(cfg.ena_gpiod);
> -		return ret;
> -	}
> +	if (IS_ERR(drvdata->dev))
> +		return dev_err_probe(&pdev->dev, PTR_ERR(drvdata->dev),
> +				     "Failed to register regulator: %ld\n",
> +				     PTR_ERR(drvdata->dev));
>  
>  	platform_set_drvdata(pdev, drvdata);
>  
>
> ---
> base-commit: 81d431130ae1af4e64030f6a956ee9137e6fc1b0
> change-id: 20251204-regulator-fixed-fix-gpiod-leak-b1f50fb8c388
>
> Best regards,
> --  
> Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>