[PATCH 09/15] dmaengine: stm32: dmamux: fix device leak on route allocation

From: Johan Hovold
Date: Mon Nov 17 2025 - 11:15:24 EST


Make sure to drop the reference taken when looking up the DMA mux
platform device during route allocation.

Note that holding a reference to a device does not prevent its driver
data from going away so there is no point in keeping the reference.

Fixes: df7e762db5f6 ("dmaengine: Add STM32 DMAMUX driver")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 4.15
Cc: Pierre-Yves MORDRET <pierre-yves.mordret@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/dma/stm32/stm32-dmamux.c | 18 ++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/dma/stm32/stm32-dmamux.c b/drivers/dma/stm32/stm32-dmamux.c
index 8d77e2a7939a..791179760782 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/stm32/stm32-dmamux.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/stm32/stm32-dmamux.c
@@ -90,23 +90,25 @@ static void *stm32_dmamux_route_allocate(struct of_phandle_args *dma_spec,
struct stm32_dmamux_data *dmamux = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
struct stm32_dmamux *mux;
u32 i, min, max;
- int ret;
+ int ret = -EINVAL;
unsigned long flags;

if (dma_spec->args_count != 3) {
dev_err(&pdev->dev, "invalid number of dma mux args\n");
- return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+ goto err_put_pdev;
}

if (dma_spec->args[0] > dmamux->dmamux_requests) {
dev_err(&pdev->dev, "invalid mux request number: %d\n",
dma_spec->args[0]);
- return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+ goto err_put_pdev;
}

mux = kzalloc(sizeof(*mux), GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!mux)
- return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+ if (!mux) {
+ ret = -ENOMEM;
+ goto err_put_pdev;
+ }

spin_lock_irqsave(&dmamux->lock, flags);
mux->chan_id = find_first_zero_bit(dmamux->dma_inuse,
@@ -133,7 +135,6 @@ static void *stm32_dmamux_route_allocate(struct of_phandle_args *dma_spec,
dma_spec->np = of_parse_phandle(ofdma->of_node, "dma-masters", i - 1);
if (!dma_spec->np) {
dev_err(&pdev->dev, "can't get dma master\n");
- ret = -EINVAL;
goto error;
}

@@ -160,6 +161,8 @@ static void *stm32_dmamux_route_allocate(struct of_phandle_args *dma_spec,
dev_dbg(&pdev->dev, "Mapping DMAMUX(%u) to DMA%u(%u)\n",
mux->request, mux->master, mux->chan_id);

+ put_device(&pdev->dev);
+
return mux;

error:
@@ -167,6 +170,9 @@ static void *stm32_dmamux_route_allocate(struct of_phandle_args *dma_spec,

error_chan_id:
kfree(mux);
+err_put_pdev:
+ put_device(&pdev->dev);
+
return ERR_PTR(ret);
}

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2.51.0