[PATCH] mmc: core: Fix OF node reference leak on card add failure

From: Zhu Ling

Date: Fri Sep 04 2026 - 05:25:37 EST


mmc_of_find_child_device() returns a device node with its reference count
incremented. mmc_add_card() stores the reference before calling
device_add(), while the card is marked present only after device_add()
succeeds.

If device_add() fails, the callers release the card through
mmc_remove_card(). However, mmc_remove_card() only drops the OF node
reference for a present card, leaking the reference on this error path.

Move of_node_put() outside the present-card conditional so the reference
is released for both registered cards and card-add failures.

Fixes: 25185f3f31c9 ("mmc: Add SDIO function devicetree subnode parsing")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Zhu Ling <zhuling0805@xxxxxx>
---
drivers/mmc/core/bus.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mmc/core/bus.c b/drivers/mmc/core/bus.c
index be5cf338bdeb..92ad39c0cabc 100644
--- a/drivers/mmc/core/bus.c
+++ b/drivers/mmc/core/bus.c
@@ -417,8 +417,8 @@ void mmc_remove_card(struct mmc_card *card)
mmc_hostname(card->host), card->rca);
}
device_del(&card->dev);
- of_node_put(card->dev.of_node);
}
+ of_node_put(card->dev.of_node);

if (host->cqe_enabled) {
host->cqe_ops->cqe_disable(host);