Re: Coccinelle: semantic patch for missing of_node_put

From: Markus Elfring
Date: Mon May 20 2019 - 16:14:50 EST


> On the other hand, I don't know if the one that seemed to cause a crash
> really caused a crash. It was detected by syzkaller, and it is also
> possible that git bisect ended up at the wrong place.

Do you refer to any known bug report here?


> In any case, forgetting an of_node_put will normally just waste a little
> memory, so probably stable kernels don't care.

Will it be nice to achieve better exception handling also for these
software versions over time?

Regards,
Markus