linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] of: Add missing of_node_put() in of_find_node_by

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Message-ID: <CACxGe6sDFQQfiN0+d5HV7JPE-0bosqdaKqrS-7o-obCy1NP_qg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 22 Jan 2015 16:18:32 +0000
From:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>
To:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>
Cc:	Gaurav Minocha <gaurav.minocha.os@...il.com>,
	"devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] of: Add missing of_node_put() in of_find_node_by_path()

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 4:14 PM, Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jan 2015 16:45:56 +0100
> , Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>
>  wrote:
>> When traversing all nodes and moving to a new path component, the old
>> one must be released by calling of_node_put(). Else the refcounts of the
>> parent node(s) will not be decremented.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>
>> ---
[...]
>> Feel free to (ab)use the code below and derive a unittest from it...

BTW, can you do this please? They are pretty important for core
changes now, and I'm stuck with doing them if the person supplying a
patch does not (and I'm already too much of a bottleneck on the DT
code).

g.
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