Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: stm32-mdma: Fix runtime PM reference leak in pm_suspend

From: Amelie Delaunay

Date: Mon Nov 02 2026 - 07:35:11 EST



On 11/2/26 11:44, Xiangwu Lai wrote:
stm32_mdma_pm_suspend() increments the runtime PM usage counter with
pm_runtime_resume_and_get(), but when a channel is still enabled it
returns -EBUSY directly without dropping the reference. The matching
pm_runtime_put_sync() only runs on the success path.

Each failed suspend attempt therefore leaks one runtime PM reference,
so the device can never runtime suspend afterwards. Drop the
reference before returning -EBUSY.

Fixes: 7cb819c856d9 ("dmaengine: stm32-mdma: add suspend/resume power management support")
Signed-off-by: Xiangwu Lai <laixiangwu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for your patch,
Reviewed-by: Amelie Delaunay <amelie.delaunay@xxxxxxxxxxx>

---
drivers/dma/stm32/stm32-mdma.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/dma/stm32/stm32-mdma.c b/drivers/dma/stm32/stm32-mdma.c
index e3bbdc9ee..fe1ff4a00 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/stm32/stm32-mdma.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/stm32/stm32-mdma.c
@@ -1785,6 +1785,7 @@ static int stm32_mdma_pm_suspend(struct device *dev)
ccr = stm32_mdma_read(dmadev, STM32_MDMA_CCR(id));
if (ccr & STM32_MDMA_CCR_EN) {
dev_warn(dev, "Suspend is prevented by Chan %i\n", id);
+ pm_runtime_put_sync(dev);
return -EBUSY;
}
}