Re: [PATCH v3] firmware: qcom: scm: Fix incorrect of_node_put calls in scm_init

[Bjorn Andersson]

On Fri 15 Dec 05:40 PST 2017, Loys Ollivier wrote:

> When using other platform architectures, in the init of the qcom_scm
> driver, of_node_put is called on /firmware if no qcom dt is found.
> This results in a kernel error: Bad of_node_put() on /firmware.
> 
> These calls to of_node_put from the qcom_scm init are unnecessary as
> of_find_matching_node and of_platform_populate are calling it
> automatically.
> 
> Remove the calls to of_node_put() on fw_np.
> 
> Fixes: d0f6fa7ba2d6 ("firmware: qcom: scm: Convert SCM to platform driver")
> Suggested-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Loys Ollivier <lollivier@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Loys,

Your patch is correct! We are however removing all this logic from
qcom_scm_init() in v4.16.

See:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agross/linux.git/commit/?h=for-next&id=3aa0582fdb824139630298880fbf78d4ac774d3c
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agross/linux.git/commit/?h=for-next&id=3aa0582fdb824139630298880fbf78d4ac774d3c

Regards,
Bjorn