Re: [PATCH] net: ethernet: ti: cpts: drop the refclk mux node reference

From: Paolo Abeni

Date: Wed Nov 04 2026 - 02:50:22 EST


On 11/3/26 12:23, Paolo Abeni wrote:
On 11/3/26 11:28, Wentao Liang wrote:
cpts_of_mux_clk_setup() obtains refclk_np with of_get_child_by_name()
and only drops that reference on the error path.  of_clk_add_hw_provider()
takes its own reference through of_node_get(), which
of_clk_del_provider() releases later, so the reference taken by
of_get_child_by_name() is leaked when the mux clock is registered
successfully.

Drop the caller's reference once the provider has been registered and
its devm cleanup action is in place.

Fixes: a3047a81ba13 ("net: ethernet: ti: cpts: add support for ext rftclk selection")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Assisted-by: DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash and OpenAI Codex
Signed-off-by: Wentao Liang <vulab@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Please have a look at:

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v7.3/source/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst#L386

also please note that such limit refers to related patches within the same
series. It's highly discouraged to have more than an handful of unrelated
patches in-flight.

TL;DT: please stops sending new patches. Likely a very limited number of the
one you already submitted will be processed; you will have to wait a significant
amount of time for any new contribution.

It's not the first time you have been asked to comply with sanity limits.
Please respect them, I really would not like to be forced to blacklist @iscas.ac.cn.
I see you ignored even the above message. I'll proceed removing
from PW all the patches you posted after my previous message.

I don't assure that the left-over will be processed.

Please do not post any other patch for 2m.

/P