Re: [PATCH v2 12/15] ARM: vexpress: fix a leaked reference by adding missing of_node_put
From: Sudeep Holla
Date: Tue Mar 05 2019 - 06:39:37 EST
On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 07:34:03PM +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-vexpress/dcscb.c:150:2-8: ERROR: missing of_node_put; acquired a node pointer with refcount incremented on line 145, but without a corresponding object release within this function.
> ./arch/arm/mach-vexpress/dcscb.c:160:2-8: ERROR: missing of_node_put; acquired a node pointer with refcount incremented on line 145, but without a corresponding object release within this function.
> ./arch/arm/mach-vexpress/dcscb.c:171:1-7: ERROR: missing of_node_put; acquired a node pointer with refcount incremented on line 145, but without a corresponding object release within this function.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wen Yang <wen.yang99@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Liviu Dudau <liviu.dudau@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx>
I already Acked assuming you have plans to take this as series. There's
no cover letter mentioning your plans to merge this or note to individual
platform maintainers. Please let us know.
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Regards,
Sudeep