Thread (2 messages) 2 messages, 2 authors, 2021-07-12

Re: [PATCH] drm/of: free the right object

From: Daniel Vetter <hidden>
Date: 2021-07-12 14:25:47
Also in: dri-devel, lkml

On Fri, Jul 09, 2021 at 10:07:17PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
There is no need to free a NULL value.  Instead, free the object
that is leaking due to the iterator.

The semantic patch that finds this problem is as follows:

// <smpl>
@@
expression x,e;
identifier f;
@@
 x = f(...);
 if (x == NULL) {
	... when any
	    when != x = e
*	of_node_put(x);
	...
 }
// </smpl>

Fixes: 6529007522de ("drm: of: Add drm_of_lvds_get_dual_link_pixel_order")
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@inria.fr>
Applied to drm-misc-next, thanks for your patch.

Random rant about this for_each_child_of_node():
- not documented with kerneldoc
- very dangerous since the seemingly correct usage leaks

What we've done here for similar refcounted iterators is a 3 step process:
- iter_init()
- for_each_iter() macro
- iter_fini(), which has to be always called after iter_init and cleans up
  the last reference.

Then it's a lot more obvious that you call iter_fini() when you break out
of a loop. Trying to hide that in the for_each macro is a bit much.

Cheers, Daniel
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_of.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_of.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_of.c
index ca04c34e8251..197c57477344 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_of.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_of.c
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ static int drm_of_lvds_get_remote_pixels_type(
 
 		remote_port = of_graph_get_remote_port(endpoint);
 		if (!remote_port) {
-			of_node_put(remote_port);
+			of_node_put(endpoint);
 			return -EPIPE;
 		}
 
-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch
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