Re: [PATCH] firmware: arm_scmi: Fix leak in scmi_mailbox_check

[Mukesh Ojha]

On 3/25/2019 11:07 PM, Steven Price wrote:
> of_parse_phandle_with_args() requires the caller to call of_node_put() on
> the returned args->np pointer. Otherwise the reference count will remain
> incremented.
>
> However, in this case, since we don't actually use the returned pointer,
> we can simply pass in NULL.
>
> Fixes: aa4f886f3893f ("firmware: arm_scmi: add basic driver infrastructure for SCMI")
> Signed-off-by: Steven Price <steven.price@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>   drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/driver.c | 4 +---
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/driver.c b/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/driver.c
> index 8f952f2f1a29..dd967d675c08 100644
> --- a/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/driver.c
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/driver.c
> @@ -654,9 +654,7 @@ static int scmi_xfer_info_init(struct scmi_info *sinfo)
>   
>   static int scmi_mailbox_check(struct device_node *np)
>   {
> -	struct of_phandle_args arg;
> -
> -	return of_parse_phandle_with_args(np, "mboxes", "#mbox-cells", 0, &arg);
> +	return of_parse_phandle_with_args(np, "mboxes", "#mbox-cells", 0, NULL);

Although, it is not used but it is better to put arg->np instead of 
passing NULL.
Here, you are making the driver not to fill arguement which is 
customised solution, that may change in future.


Thanks.
Mukesh


>   }
>   
>   static int scmi_mbox_free_channel(int id, void *p, void *data)