[PATCH 4/5] coresight: release reference taken by 'bus_find_device()'
Mathieu Poirier
mathieu.poirier at linaro.org
Thu Jan 14 10:57:59 PST 2016
The reference count taken by function bus_find_device() needs
to be released if a child device is found, something this patch
is adding.
Reported-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin at rab.in>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier at linaro.org>
---
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c
index 8872db4410eb..a35ca54a76c9 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c
@@ -570,6 +570,8 @@ static void coresight_fixup_device_conns(struct coresight_device *csdev)
if (dev) {
conn->child_dev = to_coresight_device(dev);
+ /* and put reference from 'bus_find_device()' */
+ put_device(dev);
} else {
csdev->orphan = true;
conn->child_dev = NULL;
--
2.1.4
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