Re: [PATCH] ARM: ux500: add missing of_node_put()

From: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
To: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>, Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>,
	Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>,
	Janusz Krzysztofik <jmkrzyszt@gmail.com>,
	Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
	NXP Linux Team <linux-imx@nxp.com>,
	Pengutronix Kernel Team <kernel@pengutronix.de>,
	Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: ux500: add missing of_node_put()
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 11:52:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPDyKFrdCPJRWEa37fWLMxJHzoSB_W-WrDahfz3AF=SvfCU4GA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1555139666-948-10-git-send-email-hofrat@osadl.org>

On Sat, 13 Apr 2019 at 09:20, Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org> wrote:
>
>  of_find_compatible_node() returns a pointer with refcount incremented
> so both in the error path as well as after usage in soc_info_populate()
> respectively actually b8500_read_soc_id() an explicit of_node_put is
> needed to release backupram.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org>
> Fixes: commit 18a992787896 ("ARM: ux500: move soc_id driver to drivers/soc")

Acked-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>

> ---
>
> Problem located with experimental cocinelle script
>
> get_maintainer.pl only returns linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org for
> this file ? Is MAINTAINERS entry missing ?

drivers/soc/ux500 should be added to the ARM/NOMADIK/U300/Ux500
ARCHITECTURES section, which is maintained by Linus Walleij.

If you send a patch, I am sure Linus will ack it.

>
> Not really sure about the referenced fixes commit 18a992787896
> ("ARM: ux500: move soc_id driver to drivers/soc") the commit log notes
> only that the driver is being moved and not expected to change (v4.8)
> but looking at the previous version in v4.7 it does seem that while
> moving the driver there was also a relevant change to the driver code
> including the switch to using of_find_compatible_node().
>
> Patch was compiletested with: u8500_defconfig (implies
> ONFIG_UX500_SOC_ID=y)
>
> Patch is against 4.18-rc3 (localversion-next is next-20180706)
>
>  drivers/soc/ux500/ux500-soc-id.c | 5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/soc/ux500/ux500-soc-id.c b/drivers/soc/ux500/ux500-soc-id.c
> index 6c1be74..e22597d 100644
> --- a/drivers/soc/ux500/ux500-soc-id.c
> +++ b/drivers/soc/ux500/ux500-soc-id.c
> @@ -203,10 +203,13 @@ static int __init ux500_soc_device_init(void)
>         ux500_setup_id();
>
>         soc_dev_attr = kzalloc(sizeof(*soc_dev_attr), GFP_KERNEL);
> -       if (!soc_dev_attr)
> +       if (!soc_dev_attr) {
> +               of_node_put(backupram);
>                 return -ENOMEM;
> +       }
>
>         soc_info_populate(soc_dev_attr, backupram);
> +       of_node_put(backupram);
>
>         soc_dev = soc_device_register(soc_dev_attr);
>         if (IS_ERR(soc_dev)) {
> --
> 2.1.4
>

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