Re: [PATCH] of: property: fix unbalanced of node refcount in of_fwnode_get_reference_args()

[Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com>]

On 11/17/22 08:56, Yang Yingliang wrote:

Change the subject from:

of: property: fix unbalanced of node refcount in of_fwnode_get_reference_args()

to:

of: property: decrement node refcount in of_fwnode_get_reference_args()


Change patch comment:

> I got the the following report:
> 
>   OF: ERROR: memory leak, expected refcount 1 instead of 4,
>   of_node_get()/of_node_put() unbalanced - destroy cset entry:
>   attach overlay node /i2c/pmic@34/adc
> 
> In of_fwnode_get_reference_args(), the 'of_args.np' returned
> from of_parse_phandle_with_args(), its refcount is increased
> in of_phandle_iterator_next(), if args is null, the refcount
> of 'of_args.np' need be put to avoid leak.

to:

In of_fwnode_get_reference_args(), the refcount of of_args.np has been
incremented in the case of successful return from
of_parse_phandle_with_args() or of_parse_phandle_with_fixed_args().

Decrement the refcount if of_args is not returned to the caller of
of_fwnode_get_reference_args().


> 
> Fixes: 3e3119d3088f ("device property: Introduce fwnode_property_get_reference_args")
> Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>
> ---
>  drivers/of/property.c | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/of/property.c b/drivers/of/property.c
> index 967f79b59016..134cfc980b70 100644
> --- a/drivers/of/property.c
> +++ b/drivers/of/property.c
> @@ -993,8 +993,10 @@ of_fwnode_get_reference_args(const struct fwnode_handle *fwnode,
>  						       nargs, index, &of_args);
>  	if (ret < 0)
>  		return ret;
> -	if (!args)
> +	if (!args) {
> +		of_node_put(of_args.np);
>  		return 0;
> +	}
>  
>  	args->nargs = of_args.args_count;
>  	args->fwnode = of_fwnode_handle(of_args.np);

Reviewed by visual inspection.  Did not do my normal build, test, check for
warnings.

Reviewed-by: Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com>