On error handling paths, gpiolib_cdev_register() doesn't free the
allocated resources which results leaks.  Fix it.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 7b9b77a8bba9 ("gpiolib: add a per-gpio_device line state notification workqueue")
Fixes: d83cee3d2bb1 ("gpio: protect the pointer to gpio_chip in gpio_device with SRCU")
Signed-off-by: Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@kernel.org>
---
v2:
- Fix the jumping over guard() issue reported in
  https://lore.kernel.org/linux-gpio/202601200022.ZFwz8K6u-lkp@intel.com/T/#u.
- Title prefix: "gpiolib" -> "gpio".

v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260116081036.352286-3-tzungbi@kernel.org/

 drivers/gpio/gpiolib-cdev.c | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-cdev.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-cdev.c
index 3735c9fe1502..b8b6e1873b51 100644
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-cdev.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-cdev.c
@@ -2796,13 +2796,18 @@ int gpiolib_cdev_register(struct gpio_device *gdev, dev_t devt)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	ret = cdev_device_add(&gdev->chrdev, &gdev->dev);
-	if (ret)
+	if (ret) {
+		destroy_workqueue(gdev->line_state_wq);
 		return ret;
+	}
 
 	guard(srcu)(&gdev->srcu);
 	gc = srcu_dereference(gdev->chip, &gdev->srcu);
-	if (!gc)
+	if (!gc) {
+		cdev_device_del(&gdev->chrdev, &gdev->dev);
+		destroy_workqueue(gdev->line_state_wq);
 		return -ENODEV;
+	}
 
 	gpiochip_dbg(gc, "added GPIO chardev (%d:%d)\n", MAJOR(devt), gdev->id);
 
-- 
2.52.0.457.g6b5491de43-goog

On Tue, 20 Jan 2026 09:26:50 +0000, Tzung-Bi Shih wrote:
> On error handling paths, gpiolib_cdev_register() doesn't free the
> allocated resources which results leaks.  Fix it.
> 
> 

Applied, thanks!

[1/1] gpio: cdev: Fix resource leaks on errors in gpiolib_cdev_register()
      commit: 8a8c942cad4cd12f739a8bb60cac77fd173c4e07

Best regards,
-- 
Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@oss.qualcomm.com>