linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 4/4] media: platform: sti: fix possible object reference leak

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Date:   Wed, 13 Feb 2019 07:48:49 +0800
From:   Wen Yang <wen.yang99@....com.cn>
To:     benjamin.gaignard@...aro.org
Cc:     mchehab@...nel.org, linux-media@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, xue.zhihong@....com.cn,
        wang.yi59@....com.cn, Wen Yang <wen.yang99@....com.cn>,
        "Hans Verkuil (hansverk)" <hansverk@...co.com>,
        Wen Yang <yellowriver2010@...mail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 4/4] media: platform: sti: fix possible object reference leak

The call to of_parse_phandle() returns a node pointer with refcount
incremented thus it must be explicitly decremented here after the last
usage.
The of_find_device_by_node() takes a reference to the underlying device
structure, we also should release that reference.

Hans Verkuil says:
The cec driver should never take a reference of the hdmi device.
It never accesses the HDMI device, it only needs the HDMI device pointer as
a key in the notifier list.
The real problem is that several CEC drivers take a reference of the HDMI
device and never release it. So those drivers need to be fixed.

This patch fixes those two issues.

Fixes: fc4e009c6c98 ("[media] stih-cec: add CEC notifier support")
Suggested-by: Hans Verkuil (hansverk) <hansverk@...co.com>
Signed-off-by: Wen Yang <wen.yang99@....com.cn>
Cc: Hans Verkuil (hansverk) <hansverk@...co.com>
Cc: Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@...aro.org>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>
Cc: Wen Yang <yellowriver2010@...mail.com>
Cc: linux-media@...r.kernel.org
---
v2->v1: 
- move of_node_put() to just after the 'hdmi_dev = of_find_device_by_node(np)'.
- put_device() can be done before the cec = devm_kzalloc line.

 drivers/media/platform/sti/cec/stih-cec.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/sti/cec/stih-cec.c b/drivers/media/platform/sti/cec/stih-cec.c
index d34099f..721021f 100644
--- a/drivers/media/platform/sti/cec/stih-cec.c
+++ b/drivers/media/platform/sti/cec/stih-cec.c
@@ -317,9 +317,11 @@ static int stih_cec_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	}
 
 	hdmi_dev = of_find_device_by_node(np);
+	of_node_put(np);
 	if (!hdmi_dev)
 		return -EPROBE_DEFER;
 
+	put_device(&hdmi_dev->dev);
 	cec->notifier = cec_notifier_get(&hdmi_dev->dev);
 	if (!cec->notifier)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-- 
2.9.5