linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 05/15] ARM: imx51: fix a leaked reference by adding missing of_node

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Date:   Wed, 6 Mar 2019 10:58:04 +0800
From:   Shawn Guo <shawnguo@...nel.org>
To:     Wen Yang <wen.yang99@....com.cn>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, wang.yi59@....com.cn,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>,
        Pengutronix Kernel Team <kernel@...gutronix.de>,
        Fabio Estevam <festevam@...il.com>,
        NXP Linux Team <linux-imx@....com>,
        Lucas Stach <l.stach@...gutronix.de>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 05/15] ARM: imx51: fix a leaked reference by adding
 missing of_node_put

On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 07:33:56PM +0800, 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-imx/mach-imx51.c:64:2-8: ERROR: missing of_node_put; acquired a node pointer with refcount incremented on line 57, but without a corresponding object release within this function.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wen Yang <wen.yang99@....com.cn>
> Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
> Cc: Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>
> Cc: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@...nel.org>
> Cc: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>
> Cc: Pengutronix Kernel Team <kernel@...gutronix.de>
> Cc: Fabio Estevam <festevam@...il.com>
> Cc: NXP Linux Team <linux-imx@....com>
> Cc: Lucas Stach <l.stach@...gutronix.de>
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> ---
> v2->v1: add a missing space between "adding" and "missing"

I fixed it against v1 which I applied on my branch.

Shawn