[PATCH] drm: sti: fix device leaks at component probe

Johan Hovold
2025-09-22T12:21:03Z

Make sure to drop the references taken to the vtg devices by
of_find_device_by_node() when looking up their driver data during
component probe.

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

Fixes: cc6b741c6f63 ("drm: sti: remove useless fields from vtg structure")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.16
Cc: Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/sti/sti_vtg.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/sti/sti_vtg.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/sti/sti_vtg.c
index ee81691b3203..ce6bc7e7b135 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/sti/sti_vtg.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/sti/sti_vtg.c
@@ -143,12 +143,17 @@ struct sti_vtg {
struct sti_vtg *of_vtg_find(struct device_node *np)
{
struct platform_device *pdev;
+ struct sti_vtg *vtg;

pdev = of_find_device_by_node(np);
if (!pdev)
return NULL;

- return (struct sti_vtg *)platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
+ vtg = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
+
+ put_device(&pdev->dev);
+
+ return vtg;
}

static void vtg_reset(struct sti_vtg *vtg)
--
2.49.1