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regulator: fixed: Rely on the core freeing the enable GPIO

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.

Fixes: 636f4618b1cd (regulator: fixed: fix GPIO descriptor leak on register failure)
Reported-by: Diederik de Haas <diederik@cknow-tech.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/DEPEYUF5BRGY.UKFBWRRE8HNP@cknow-tech.com
Tested-by: Diederik de Haas <diederik@cknow-tech.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251204-regulator-fixed-fix-gpiod-leak-v1-1-48efea5b82c2@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>

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drivers/regulator/fixed.c
··· 330 330 331 331 drvdata->dev = devm_regulator_register(&pdev->dev, &drvdata->desc, 332 332 &cfg); 333 - if (IS_ERR(drvdata->dev)) { 334 - ret = dev_err_probe(&pdev->dev, PTR_ERR(drvdata->dev), 335 - "Failed to register regulator: %ld\n", 336 - PTR_ERR(drvdata->dev)); 337 - gpiod_put(cfg.ena_gpiod); 338 - return ret; 339 - } 333 + if (IS_ERR(drvdata->dev)) 334 + return dev_err_probe(&pdev->dev, PTR_ERR(drvdata->dev), 335 + "Failed to register regulator: %ld\n", 336 + PTR_ERR(drvdata->dev)); 340 337 341 338 platform_set_drvdata(pdev, drvdata); 342 339