linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 02/15] ARM: bcm: fix a leaked reference by addingmissing of_node

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Message-ID: <d4e943ba-d817-2559-1872-81a5d6785c83@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 1 Mar 2019 10:28:59 -0800
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     Wen Yang <wen.yang99@....com.cn>, liviu.dudau@....com
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/15] ARM: bcm: fix a leaked reference by addingmissing
 of_node_put

On 3/1/19 12:56 AM, Wen Yang wrote:
> The call to of_get_next_child returns a node pointer with refcount
> incremented thus it must be explicitly decremented after the last
> usage.
> 
> Detected by coccinelle with the following warnings:
> ./arch/arm/mach-bcm/board_bcm281xx.c:43:2-8: ERROR: missing of_node_put; acquired a node pointer with refcount incremented on line 35, but without a corresponding object release within this function.

This looks fine, if you resubmit, can you add a missing space between
"adding" and "missing"? This applies to all of your patches, so I am
assuming you somehow scripted that, which should be easy to fix.

With that changed:

Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
-- 
Florian