From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnd Bergmann Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/iommu.c: add missing of_node_put Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:26:49 +0200 Message-ID: <201108291326.49561.arnd@arndb.de> References: <1313943001-12884-1-git-send-email-julia@diku.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1313943001-12884-1-git-send-email-julia@diku.dk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Julia Lawall Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Paul Mackerras , Grant Likely , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, cbe-oss-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Sunday 21 August 2011, Julia Lawall wrote: > From: Julia Lawall > > np is initialized to the result of calling a function that calls > of_node_get, so of_node_put should be called before the pointer is dropped. > > The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows: > (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) > > // > @@ > expression e,e1,e2; > @@ > > * e = \(of_find_node_by_type\|of_find_node_by_name\)(...) > ... when != of_node_put(e) > when != true e == NULL > when != e2 = e > e = e1 > // > > Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall > Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann