From: Valery Borovsky <vebohr@gmail.com>
To: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Benson Leung <bleung@chromium.org>,
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Valery Borovsky <vebohr@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] perf/arm_pmu_acpi: fix reference leak in arm_pmu_acpi_probe error path
Date: Tue, 5 May 2026 13:36:27 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <inv007-withdrawal-vebohr@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1777889235.git.vebohr@gmail.com>
Yeah, you're right, my bad. The `arm_pmu_acpi.c` patch is definitely broken.
Since `spe_dev` and `trbe_dev` are statically allocated, they don't have a
`.dev.release` callback. If we hit `platform_device_put()` here, the refcount
drops to zero and triggers `device_release()`, which is going to scream about
the missing release function. At best, we get a messy WARN; at worst, it'll
panic the kernel if someone's running with `panic_on_warn`.
The kernel-doc note about `platform_device_put()` is really meant for dynamic
allocations where the release path actually frees memory. For static setups
like this, the original code is actually the right way to go.
Please drop patches 1/5 through 4/5 from the v1 series—they all suffer from
the same logic error. Patch 5/5 (mfd: sm501) is the only clean one, so I've
re-sent that as a standalone v2.
Sorry for the noise.
Valery Borovsky
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-05 10:36 UTC|newest]
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2026-05-04 10:08 ` [PATCH 4/5] perf: arm: pmu: fix reference leak on failed device registration Vastargazing
2026-05-05 8:50 ` Sudeep Holla
2026-05-05 10:36 ` Valery Borovsky [this message]
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