Re: [PATCH v4 05/14] coresight: get/put module in coresight_build/release_path

[Suzuki K Poulose]

On 06/06/2018 09:55 PM, Kim Phillips wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Jun 2018 10:46:36 +0100
> Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> > And while we are at this, I also realised that we hold references to the
> > parent devices for each connection (via bus_find_device() from
> > of_coresight_get_endpoint_device()), while parsing the platform data,
> > which is never released.
>
> Would this fix that?:

Not completely. We store the dev_name() as a reference, which itself can 
be free'd, when the device is gone. I have a fix for this in my next
version of the DT clean up series [0], where I clean up most of the
platform parsing code.


[0] 
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2018-June/582904.html

Cheers
Suzuki

> diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/of_coresight.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/of_coresight.c
> index a33a92ebe74b..a43ab078c85e 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/of_coresight.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/of_coresight.c
> @@ -181,6 +181,8 @@ of_get_coresight_platform_data(struct device *dev,
>                          pdata->child_names[i] = dev_name(rdev);
>                          pdata->child_ports[i] = rendpoint.id;
>   
> +                       put_device(rdev);
> +
>                          i++;
>                  } while (ep);
>          }