Re: [PATCH v2, part 1 3/9] PCI: Convert alloc_pci_dev(void) topci_alloc_dev(bus) instead

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 07:58 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:

> Ben,
> 
> in drivers/pci/probe.c::pci_scan_device() there is
> 
>         pci_set_of_node(dev);
> 
>         if (pci_setup_device(dev)) {
>                 kfree(dev);
>                 return NULL;
>         }
> 
> so if pci_setup_device fails, there is one dev reference is not release.
> 
> please check you can just move down pci_set_of_node down after that
> failing path, like
> 
> 
>         if (pci_setup_device(dev)) {
>                 kfree(dev);
>                 return NULL;
>         }
> 
>         pci_set_of_node(dev);

No, we want the OF node set when we run the quirks, we intentionally do
that early, the right thing to do is to to call pci_release_of_node()
in the error path (it's safe to call even if the node is NULL).

Cheers,
Ben.



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