Re: [RFC PATCH 03/57] drivers: coresight: Drop device references found via bus_find_device

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Jun 03, 2019 at 04:49:29PM +0100, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> We must drop references to the device found via bus_find_device().
> 
> Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c
> index 4b13028..37ccd67 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c
> @@ -540,7 +540,7 @@ struct coresight_device *coresight_get_enabled_sink(bool deactivate)
>  
>  	dev = bus_find_device(&coresight_bustype, NULL, &deactivate,
>  			      coresight_enabled_sink);
> -
> +	put_device(dev);
>  	return dev ? to_coresight_device(dev) : NULL;

You drop the reference and then use the pointer?

Not good :(

>  }
>  
> @@ -581,7 +581,7 @@ struct coresight_device *coresight_get_sink_by_id(u32 id)
>  
>  	dev = bus_find_device(&coresight_bustype, NULL, &id,
>  			      coresight_sink_by_id);
> -
> +	put_device(dev);
>  	return dev ? to_coresight_device(dev) : NULL;

Same here, not good :(

Please fix this up and it can go in as a bugfix like any other normal
patch, outside of this huge series.

thanks,

greg k-h