Re: [PATCH] HID: appletb-kbd: fix "appletb_backlight" backlight device reference counting

[Jiri Kosina]

On Sun, 15 Jun 2025, Qasim Ijaz wrote:

> During appletb_kbd_probe, probe attempts to get the backlight device
> by name. When this happens backlight_device_get_by_name looks for a
> device in the backlight class which has name "appletb_backlight" and
> upon finding a match it increments the reference count for the device
> and returns it to the caller. However this reference is never released 
> leading to a reference leak.
> 
> Fix this by decrementing the backlight device reference count on removal
> via put_device and on probe failure.
> 
> Fixes: 93a0fc489481 ("HID: hid-appletb-kbd: add support for automatic brightness control while using the touchbar")
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Qasim Ijaz <qasdev00@xxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks.

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs