media: lirc: Fix error handling in lirc_register()

[ Upstream commit 4f4098c57e139ad972154077fb45c3e3141555dd ]

When cdev_device_add() failed, calling put_device() to explicitly
release dev->lirc_dev. Otherwise, it could cause the fault of the
reference count.

Found by code review.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: a6ddd4fecb ("media: lirc: remove last remnants of lirc kapi")
Signed-off-by: Ma Ke <make24@iscas.ac.cn>
Signed-off-by: Sean Young <sean@mess.org>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Ma Ke 2025-10-17 19:31:51 -04:00 • committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
commit 83fc1f68fb

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@ -762,11 +762,11 @@ int ir_lirc_register(struct rc_dev *dev)
cdev_init(&dev->lirc_cdev, &lirc_fops);
get_device(&dev->dev);
err = cdev_device_add(&dev->lirc_cdev, &dev->lirc_dev);
if (err)
goto out_ida;
get_device(&dev->dev);
goto out_put_device;
switch (dev->driver_type) {
case RC_DRIVER_SCANCODE:
@ -790,7 +790,8 @@ int ir_lirc_register(struct rc_dev *dev)
return 0;
out_ida:
out_put_device:
put_device(&dev->lirc_dev);
ida_free(&lirc_ida, minor);
return err;
}