Re: [PATCH 01/15] ARM: actions: fix a leaked reference by addingmissing of_node_put

[Manivannan Sadhasivam]

Hi Linus,

On Mon, Mar 04, 2019 at 01:29:33PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 4:55 PM Manivannan Sadhasivam
> <manivannan.sadhasivam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi Wen,
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 01, 2019 at 04:56:42PM +0800, Wen Yang wrote:
> > > The call to of_get_next_child returns a node pointer with refcount
> > > incremented thus it must be explicitly decremented after the last
> > > usage.
> > >
> > > Detected by coccinelle with the following warnings:
> > > ./arch/arm/mach-actions/platsmp.c:112:2-8: ERROR: missing of_node_put; acquired a node pointer with refcount incremented on line 103, but without a corresponding object release within this function.
> > > ./arch/arm/mach-actions/platsmp.c:124:2-8: ERROR: missing of_node_put; acquired a node pointer with refcount incremented on line 115, but without a corresponding object release within this function.
> > > ./arch/arm/mach-actions/platsmp.c:137:3-9: ERROR: missing of_node_put; acquired a node pointer with refcount incremented on line 128, but without a corresponding object release within this function.
> > >
> >
> > We have a floating patch for this:
> > https://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg694544.html
> >
> > Andreas: Can you please take a second look at the patchset submitted by Linus
> > Walleij and Russel for simplifying the Actions startup code?
> 
> Andreas wrote a version of simplifying secondary startup in the
> same spirit as Russell's patches, and it's merged and all
> is fine I think.
> 

Oops. I think I missed that! Can you please point me to that patch? And how it
got merged? I did the PR for actions stuff this time and haven't included any
mach-actions patches.

Thanks,
Mani

> If this patch applied on top of the current upstream code I'd say
> just forget about my patch and merge Wen's patch instead.
> 
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij