Re: [PATCH 1/4] ARM: brcmstb: fix a leaked reference by adding missing of_node_put

From: Florian Fainelli
Date: Tue Mar 05 2019 - 22:14:24 EST




On 3/5/2019 3:32 AM, 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-bcm/platsmp-brcmstb.c:337:2-8: ERROR: missing of_node_put; acquired a node pointer with refcount incremented on line 329, but without a corresponding object release within this function.
> ./arch/arm/mach-bcm/platsmp-brcmstb.c:341:2-8: ERROR: missing of_node_put; acquired a node pointer with refcount incremented on line 329, but without a corresponding object release within this functio
> ./arch/arm/mach-bcm/bcm63xx_smp.c:150:1-7: ERROR: missing of_node_put; acquired a node pointer with refcount incremented on line 130, but without a corresponding object release within this function.


I would actually lump that in your [PATCH v2 02/15] ARM: bcm: fix a
leaked reference by adding missing of_node_put patch since the subject
of that one is correct.

Thanks!
--
Florian