linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drm: sti: fix device leaks at component probe

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Message-ID: <176399066927.969838.15946277530835988104.b4-ty@foss.st.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2025 14:27:04 +0100
From: Raphael Gallais-Pou <raphael.gallais-pou@...s.st.com>
To: Alain Volmat <alain.volmat@...s.st.com>,
        Raphael Gallais-Pou
	<rgallaispou@...il.com>,
        Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>
CC: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>,
        Maxime Ripard
	<mripard@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>,
        David Airlie
	<airlied@...il.com>, Simona Vetter <simona@...ll.ch>,
        <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
        Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@...labora.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm: sti: fix device leaks at component probe


On Mon, 22 Sep 2025 14:20:12 +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> Make sure to drop the references taken to the vtg devices by
> of_find_device_by_node() when looking up their driver data during
> component probe.
> 
> Note that holding a reference to a platform device does not prevent its
> driver data from going away so there is no point in keeping the
> reference after the lookup helper returns.
> 
> [...]

Hi Johan,

Applied, thanks!

[1/1] drm: sti: fix device leaks at component probe
      commit: 620a8f131154250f6a64a07d049a4f235d6451a5

Best regards,
-- 
Raphael Gallais-Pou <raphael.gallais-pou@...s.st.com>