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* [PATCH] pinctrl: core: Remove extra kref_get which blocks hogs being freed
@ 2020-02-28 15:41 Charles Keepax
  2020-02-28 23:33 ` Linus Walleij
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Charles Keepax @ 2020-02-28 15:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linus.walleij; +Cc: tony, linux-gpio, linux-kernel, patches

kref_init starts with the reference count at 1, which will be balanced
by the pinctrl_put in pinctrl_unregister. The additional kref_get in
pinctrl_claim_hogs will increase this count to 2 and cause the hogs to
not get freed when pinctrl_unregister is called.

Fixes: 6118714275f0 ("pinctrl: core: Fix pinctrl_register_and_init() with pinctrl_enable()")
Signed-off-by: Charles Keepax <ckeepax@opensource.cirrus.com>
---
 drivers/pinctrl/core.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/pinctrl/core.c b/drivers/pinctrl/core.c
index 446d84fe0e31c..f23c55e221955 100644
--- a/drivers/pinctrl/core.c
+++ b/drivers/pinctrl/core.c
@@ -2021,7 +2021,6 @@ static int pinctrl_claim_hogs(struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev)
 		return PTR_ERR(pctldev->p);
 	}
 
-	kref_get(&pctldev->p->users);
 	pctldev->hog_default =
 		pinctrl_lookup_state(pctldev->p, PINCTRL_STATE_DEFAULT);
 	if (IS_ERR(pctldev->hog_default)) {
-- 
2.11.0


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