Re: [PATCH v2] mtd: rawnand: jz4780: fix possible object reference leak

From: Boris Brezillon
Date: Tue Feb 05 2019 - 11:21:48 EST


On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 16:55:02 +0100
Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Wen,
>
> Wen Yang <yellowriver2010@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on Tue, 5 Feb 2019
> 15:07:21 +0000:
>
> > of_find_device_by_node() takes a reference to the struct device
> > when it finds a match via get_device, there is no need to call
> > get_device() twice.
> > We also should make sure to drop the reference to the device
> > taken by of_find_device_by_node() on driver unbind.
> >
> > Fixes: ae02ab00aa3c ("mtd: nand: jz4780: driver for NAND devices on
> > JZ4780 SoCs") Signed-off-by: Wen Yang <yellowriver2010@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Suggested-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Harvey Hunt <harveyhuntnexus@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Boris Brezillon <bbrezillon@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>
> > Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: linux-mtd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > ---
> > v2->v1: Since there is the only one user, let's remove the
> > err_put_device label.
> >
> > drivers/mtd/nand/raw/jz4780_bch.c | 8 +++++---
> > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/jz4780_bch.c
> > b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/jz4780_bch.c index 7201827..363465c 100644
> > --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/jz4780_bch.c
> > +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/jz4780_bch.c
> > @@ -281,10 +281,12 @@ static struct jz4780_bch
> > *jz4780_bch_get(struct device_node *np) struct jz4780_bch *bch;
> >
> > pdev = of_find_device_by_node(np);
> > - if (!pdev || !platform_get_drvdata(pdev))
> > + if (!pdev)
> > return ERR_PTR(-EPROBE_DEFER);
> > -
> > - get_device(&pdev->dev);
> > + if (!platform_get_drvdata(pdev)) {
> > + put_device(&pdev->dev);
> > + return ERR_PTR(-EPROBE_DEFER);
> > + }
> >
> > bch = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
> > clk_prepare_enable(bch->clk);
>
> Acked-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Don't plan to take that one (or any other ref leak fix) in the mtd/fixes
branch, feel free to queue it to nand/next.