linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 5/6] phy: core: Fix an OF node refcount leakage in of_phy_provider

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Message-Id: <20241024-phy_core_fix-v2-5-fc0c63dbfcf3@quicinc.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 22:39:30 +0800
From: Zijun Hu <zijun_hu@...oud.com>
To: Vinod Koul <vkoul@...nel.org>, 
 Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@...nel.org>, Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>, 
 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, 
 Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, 
 Lee Jones <lee@...nel.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lpieralisi@...nel.org>, 
 Krzysztof Wilczyński <kw@...ux.com>, 
 Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>, 
 "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, 
 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, 
 Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>, 
 Zijun Hu <zijun_hu@...oud.com>, stable@...r.kernel.org, 
 linux-phy@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
 Zijun Hu <quic_zijuhu@...cinc.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 5/6] phy: core: Fix an OF node refcount leakage in
 of_phy_provider_lookup()

From: Zijun Hu <quic_zijuhu@...cinc.com>

For macro for_each_child_of_node(parent, child), refcount of @child has
been increased before entering its loop body, so normally needs to call
of_node_put(@child) before returning from the loop body to avoid refcount
leakage.

of_phy_provider_lookup() has such usage but does not call of_node_put()
before returning, so cause leakage of the OF node refcount.

Fixed by simply calling of_node_put() before returning from the loop body.

The APIs affected by this issue are shown below since they indirectly
invoke problematic of_phy_provider_lookup().
phy_get()
of_phy_get()
devm_phy_get()
devm_of_phy_get()
devm_of_phy_get_by_index()

Fixes: 2a4c37016ca9 ("phy: core: Fix of_phy_provider_lookup to return PHY provider for sub node")
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Zijun Hu <quic_zijuhu@...cinc.com>

---
The following kernel mainline commit fixes a similar issue:
Commit: b337cc3ce475 ("backlight: lm3509_bl: Fix early returns in for_each_child_of_node()")
---
 drivers/phy/phy-core.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/phy/phy-core.c b/drivers/phy/phy-core.c
index 967878b78797..de0264dfc387 100644
--- a/drivers/phy/phy-core.c
+++ b/drivers/phy/phy-core.c
@@ -145,8 +145,10 @@ static struct phy_provider *of_phy_provider_lookup(struct device_node *node)
 			return phy_provider;

 		for_each_child_of_node(phy_provider->children, child)
-			if (child == node)
+			if (child == node) {
+				of_node_put(child);
 				return phy_provider;
+			}
 	}

 	return ERR_PTR(-EPROBE_DEFER);

-- 
2.34.1