Re: [PATCH] arm/xen: Fix refcount leak in xen_dt_guest_init

[Stefano Stabellini]

On Wed, 9 Mar 2022, Miaoqian Lin wrote:
> The of_find_compatible_node() function returns a node pointer with
> refcount incremented, We should use of_node_put() on it when done
> Add the missing of_node_put() to release the refcount.
> 
> Fixes: 9b08aaa3199a ("ARM: XEN: Move xen_early_init() before efi_init()")
> Signed-off-by: Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for the patch!


> ---
>  arch/arm/xen/enlighten.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/xen/enlighten.c b/arch/arm/xen/enlighten.c
> index ec5b082f3de6..262f45f686b6 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/xen/enlighten.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/xen/enlighten.c
> @@ -424,6 +424,7 @@ static void __init xen_dt_guest_init(void)
>  
>  	if (of_address_to_resource(xen_node, GRANT_TABLE_INDEX, &res)) {
>  		pr_err("Xen grant table region is not found\n");
> +		of_node_put(xen_node);
>  		return;
>  	}

This is adding a call to of_node_put on the error path. Shouldn't it
be called also in the non-error path?

Also, there is another instance of of_address_to_resource being called
in this file (in arch_xen_unpopulated_init), does it make sense to call
of_node_put there too?