[PATCH 3/6] clocksource: clksrc-of: Do not drop unheld reference on device node

Daniel Lezcano daniel.lezcano at linaro.org
Tue Dec 10 14:16:09 EST 2013


From: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding at gmail.com>

When booting a recent kernel on ARM with OF_DYNAMIC enabled, the kernel
warns about the following:

	[    0.000000] ERROR: Bad of_node_put() on /timer at 50004600
	[    0.000000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.12.0-rc5-next-20131017-00077-gedfd827-dirty #406
	[    0.000000] [<c0015b68>] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0xf4) from [<c00117e4>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14)
	[    0.000000] [<c00117e4>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14) from [<c055f734>] (dump_stack+0x9c/0xc8)
	[    0.000000] [<c055f734>] (dump_stack+0x9c/0xc8) from [<c03b47d4>] (of_node_release+0x90/0x9c)
	[    0.000000] [<c03b47d4>] (of_node_release+0x90/0x9c) from [<c03b5084>] (of_find_matching_node_and_match+0x78/0xb4)
	[    0.000000] [<c03b5084>] (of_find_matching_node_and_match+0x78/0xb4) from [<c07887c8>] (clocksource_of_init+0x60/0x70)
	[    0.000000] [<c07887c8>] (clocksource_of_init+0x60/0x70) from [<c076e99c>] (start_kernel+0x1f4/0x33c)
	[    0.000000] [<c076e99c>] (start_kernel+0x1f4/0x33c) from [<80008074>] (0x80008074)

This is caused by clocksource_of_init() dropping a reference on the
device node that it never took. The reference taken by the loop is
implicitly dropped on subsequent iterations. See the implementation of
and the comment on top of the of_find_matching_node_and_match()
function for reference (no pun intended).

Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding at nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano at linaro.org>
Cc: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>
---
 drivers/clocksource/clksrc-of.c |    1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/clksrc-of.c b/drivers/clocksource/clksrc-of.c
index 35639cf4..b9ddd9e 100644
--- a/drivers/clocksource/clksrc-of.c
+++ b/drivers/clocksource/clksrc-of.c
@@ -35,6 +35,5 @@ void __init clocksource_of_init(void)
 
 		init_func = match->data;
 		init_func(np);
-		of_node_put(np);
 	}
 }
-- 
1.7.9.5




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