Re: [PATCH 1/5] net: dsa: fix a leaked reference by adding a missing of_node_put
From: Linus Walleij <hidden>
Date: 2019-02-22 10:39:10
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On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 8:15 AM Wen Yang [off-list ref] wrote:
The call to of_get_child_by_name returns a node pointer with refcount incremented thus it must be explicitly decremented after the last usage. Detected by coccinelle with the following warnings: ./drivers/net/dsa/rtl8366rb.c:510:2-8: ERROR: missing of_node_put; acquired a node pointer with refcount incremented on line 501, but without a corresponding object release within this function. ./drivers/net/dsa/rtl8366rb.c:518:2-8: ERROR: missing of_node_put; acquired a node pointer with refcount incremented on line 501, but without a corresponding object release within this function. ./drivers/net/dsa/rtl8366rb.c:540:2-8: ERROR: missing of_node_put; acquired a node pointer with refcount incremented on line 501, but without a corresponding object release within this function. ./drivers/net/dsa/rtl8366rb.c:548:2-8: ERROR: missing of_node_put; acquired a node pointer with refcount incremented on line 501, but without a corresponding object release within this function. ./drivers/net/dsa/rtl8366rb.c:556:2-8: ERROR: missing of_node_put; acquired a node pointer with refcount incremented on line 501, but without a corresponding object release within this function. ./drivers/net/dsa/rtl8366rb.c:561:1-7: ERROR: missing of_node_put; acquired a node pointer with refcount incremented on line 501, but without a corresponding object release within this function. Signed-off-by: Wen Yang <redacted> Cc: Linus Walleij <redacted> Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> Cc: Vivien Didelot <redacted> Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <redacted> Yours, Linus Walleij