Re: [PATCH v2 05/15] ARM: imx51: fix a leaked reference by adding missing of_node_put

From: Shawn Guo
Date: Tue Mar 05 2019 - 21:59:17 EST


On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 07:33:56PM +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-imx/mach-imx51.c:64:2-8: ERROR: missing of_node_put; acquired a node pointer with refcount incremented on line 57, 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: Russell King <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Pengutronix Kernel Team <kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Fabio Estevam <festevam@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: NXP Linux Team <linux-imx@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Lucas Stach <l.stach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
> v2->v1: add a missing space between "adding" and "missing"

I fixed it against v1 which I applied on my branch.

Shawn