Re: [PATCH 6.12 469/602] i2c: davinci: Unregister cpufreq notifier on probe failure

Harshit Mogalapalli <[email protected]> Sat, 1 Aug 2026 09:35:29 +0530
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.patches,org.kernel.vger.stable
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Hi Sasha,

On 01/08/26 8:09 am, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2026 at 10:40:53PM +0530, Harshit Mogalapalli wrote:
>> I think this backport is incomplete; I think route both GPIO failure
>> branches through err_cpufreq:
> 
> Both IS_ERR() checks are inside "else if (dev->pdata->gpio_recovery)",
> and nothing sets gpio_recovery in either tree - dead code.
> 
> They also used "goto err_unuse_clocks" before this patch, so it's a
> pre-existing gap, not a regression. The patch fixes the
> i2c_add_numbered_adapter() leak; dropping it is strictly worse.
> 

Yep agreed, thanks fore checking sasha, just that it is unusual to do 
that. Nothing to fix, thanks!


Regards,
harshit
> And since b04ce6385979 deleted the block in v6.14, there's no upstream
> commit to backport for the rest.
> 
> Thanks for the review.
>