[PATCH 4.19 72/89] pinctrl: core: Remove extra kref_get which blocks hogs being freed

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Mar 17 2020 - 07:20:36 EST


From: Charles Keepax <ckeepax@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit aafd56fc79041bf36f97712d4b35208cbe07db90 upstream.

kref_init starts with the reference count at 1, which will be balanced
by the pinctrl_put in pinctrl_unregister. The additional kref_get in
pinctrl_claim_hogs will increase this count to 2 and cause the hogs to
not get freed when pinctrl_unregister is called.

Fixes: 6118714275f0 ("pinctrl: core: Fix pinctrl_register_and_init() with pinctrl_enable()")
Signed-off-by: Charles Keepax <ckeepax@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200228154142.13860-1-ckeepax@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
drivers/pinctrl/core.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/pinctrl/core.c
+++ b/drivers/pinctrl/core.c
@@ -2008,7 +2008,6 @@ static int pinctrl_claim_hogs(struct pin
return PTR_ERR(pctldev->p);
}

- kref_get(&pctldev->p->users);
pctldev->hog_default =
pinctrl_lookup_state(pctldev->p, PINCTRL_STATE_DEFAULT);
if (IS_ERR(pctldev->hog_default)) {