[PATCH] soc: samsung: exynos-pmu: fix device leak on regmap lookup

From: Johan Hovold

Date: Fri Nov 21 2025 - 07:19:15 EST


Make sure to drop the reference taken when looking up the PMU device and
its regmap.

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

Fixes: 0b7c6075022c ("soc: samsung: exynos-pmu: Add regmap support for SoCs that protect PMU regs")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 6.9
Cc: Peter Griffin <peter.griffin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/soc/samsung/exynos-pmu.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/soc/samsung/exynos-pmu.c b/drivers/soc/samsung/exynos-pmu.c
index 22c50ca2aa79..ba4de8194a0e 100644
--- a/drivers/soc/samsung/exynos-pmu.c
+++ b/drivers/soc/samsung/exynos-pmu.c
@@ -346,6 +346,8 @@ struct regmap *exynos_get_pmu_regmap_by_phandle(struct device_node *np,
if (!dev)
return ERR_PTR(-EPROBE_DEFER);

+ put_device(dev);
+
return syscon_node_to_regmap(pmu_np);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(exynos_get_pmu_regmap_by_phandle);
--
2.51.2