Re: [PATCH] irqchip/gic-v3: fix resource leak in partition_domain_translate()

[Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>]

On Mon, 21 Jul 2025 08:28:04 +0100,
jackysliu <1972843537@qq.com> wrote:
> 
> There is a device node reference leak in partition_domain_translate().
> After the function obtains the device node np via of_find_node_by_phandle,
> it does not call of_node_put(np) to release the node reference
> in both the error path and the normal return path.
> This causes the node reference count to increase each time
> the function is called, causing a resource leak.
>
> This issue was detected by rule based static tools
> developed by Tencent.
> 
> Fixes: 87228532e7e9 ("irqchip: Switch to of_fwnode_handle()")
> 
> Signed-off-by: jackysliu <1972843537@qq.com>

Drop the spurious blank line.

> ---
>  drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c | 6 +++++-
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c
> index efc791c43d44..61c1d404b726 100644
> --- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c
> +++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c
> @@ -1821,12 +1821,16 @@ static int partition_domain_translate(struct irq_domain *d,
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  
>  	ret = gic_irq_domain_translate(d, fwspec, &ppi_intid, type);
> -	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(ret))
> +	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(ret)) {
> +		of_node_put(np);
>  		return 0;
> +	}
>  
>  	ppi_idx = __gic_get_ppi_index(ppi_intid);
>  	ret = partition_translate_id(gic_data.ppi_descs[ppi_idx],
>  				     of_fwnode_handle(np));
> +	of_node_put(np);
> +
>  	if (ret < 0)
>  		return ret;
>  

Frankly, this looks awful, and we have much better ways to solve this
whole class of problems. Why can't the (untested) patch below do the
right thing, without the ugliness?

	M.

diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c
index efc791c43d441..c4839032ce8d0 100644
--- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c
+++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c
@@ -1808,8 +1808,8 @@ static int partition_domain_translate(struct irq_domain *d,
 				      unsigned long *hwirq,
 				      unsigned int *type)
 {
+	struct device_node *np __free(device_node) = NULL;
 	unsigned long ppi_intid;
-	struct device_node *np;
 	unsigned int ppi_idx;
 	int ret;
 

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