Re: [PATCH] drm/of: free the right object

[Daniel Vetter]

On Fri, Jul 09, 2021 at 10:07:17PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> There is no need to free a NULL value.  Instead, free the object
> that is leaking due to the iterator.
> 
> The semantic patch that finds this problem is as follows:
> 
> // <smpl>
> @@
> expression x,e;
> identifier f;
> @@
>  x = f(...);
>  if (x == NULL) {
> 	... when any
> 	    when != x = e
> *	of_node_put(x);
> 	...
>  }
> // </smpl>
> 
> Fixes: 6529007522de ("drm: of: Add drm_of_lvds_get_dual_link_pixel_order")
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxxx>

Applied to drm-misc-next, thanks for your patch.

Random rant about this for_each_child_of_node():
- not documented with kerneldoc
- very dangerous since the seemingly correct usage leaks

What we've done here for similar refcounted iterators is a 3 step process:
- iter_init()
- for_each_iter() macro
- iter_fini(), which has to be always called after iter_init and cleans up
  the last reference.

Then it's a lot more obvious that you call iter_fini() when you break out
of a loop. Trying to hide that in the for_each macro is a bit much.

Cheers, Daniel

> 
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_of.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_of.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_of.c
> index ca04c34e8251..197c57477344 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_of.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_of.c
> @@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ static int drm_of_lvds_get_remote_pixels_type(
>  
>  		remote_port = of_graph_get_remote_port(endpoint);
>  		if (!remote_port) {
> -			of_node_put(remote_port);
> +			of_node_put(endpoint);
>  			return -EPIPE;
>  		}
>  
> 

-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch