linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fsl/fman: add missing put_devcie() call in fman_port

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Date:   Mon, 2 Nov 2020 17:30:41 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Yu Kuai <yukuai3@...wei.com>
Cc:     <madalin.bucur@....com>, <davem@...emloft.net>,
        <florinel.iordache@....com>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <yi.zhang@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fsl/fman: add missing put_devcie() call in
 fman_port_probe()

On Sat, 31 Oct 2020 18:54:18 +0800 Yu Kuai wrote:
> if of_find_device_by_node() succeed, fman_port_probe() doesn't have a
> corresponding put_device(). Thus add jump target to fix the exception
> handling for this function implementation.
> 
> Fixes: 0572054617f3 ("fsl/fman: fix dereference null return value")
> Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@...wei.com>

> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fman/fman_port.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fman/fman_port.c
> index d9baac0dbc7d..576ce6df3fce 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fman/fman_port.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fman/fman_port.c
> @@ -1799,13 +1799,13 @@ static int fman_port_probe(struct platform_device *of_dev)
>  	of_node_put(fm_node);
>  	if (!fm_pdev) {
>  		err = -EINVAL;
> -		goto return_err;
> +		goto put_device;
>  	}

> @@ -1898,6 +1898,8 @@ static int fman_port_probe(struct platform_device *of_dev)
>  
>  return_err:
>  	of_node_put(port_node);
> +put_device:
> +	put_device(&fm_pdev->dev);
>  free_port:
>  	kfree(port);
>  	return err;

This does not look right. You're jumping to put_device() when fm_pdev
is NULL? 

The order of error handling should be the reverse of the order of
execution of the function.