[PATCH] drm/tegra: fix device leak on probe()

From: Johan Hovold

Date: Fri Nov 21 2025 - 06:24:47 EST


Make sure to drop the reference taken when looking up the companion
device during probe().

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: f68ba6912bd2 ("drm/tegra: dc: Link DC1 to DC0 on Tegra20")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 4.16
Cc: Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/dc.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/dc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/dc.c
index 59d5c1ba145a..7a6b30df6a89 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/dc.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/dc.c
@@ -3148,6 +3148,8 @@ static int tegra_dc_couple(struct tegra_dc *dc)
dc->client.parent = &parent->client;

dev_dbg(dc->dev, "coupled to %s\n", dev_name(companion));
+
+ put_device(companion);
}

return 0;
--
2.51.2