[PATCH 6.12 281/567] soc: amlogic: canvas: fix device leak on lookup

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-01-06T17:31:36Z

From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>

commit 32200f4828de9d7e6db379909898e718747f4e18 upstream.

Make sure to drop the reference taken to the canvas platform device when
looking up its driver data.

Note that holding a reference to a device does not prevent its driver
data from going away so there is no point in keeping the reference.

Also note that commit 28f851e6afa8 ("soc: amlogic: canvas: add missing
put_device() call in meson_canvas_get()") fixed the leak in a lookup
error path, but the reference is still leaking on success.

Fixes: d4983983d987 ("soc: amlogic: add meson-canvas driver")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.20: 28f851e6afa8
Cc: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@googlemail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250926142454.5929-2-johan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/soc/amlogic/meson-canvas.c | 5 ++---
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/soc/amlogic/meson-canvas.c
+++ b/drivers/soc/amlogic/meson-canvas.c
@@ -73,10 +73,9 @@ struct meson_canvas *meson_canvas_get(st
* current state, this driver probe cannot return -EPROBE_DEFER
*/
canvas = dev_get_drvdata(&canvas_pdev->dev);
- if (!canvas) {
- put_device(&canvas_pdev->dev);
+ put_device(&canvas_pdev->dev);
+ if (!canvas)
return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
- }

return canvas;
}