[PATCH -next] spi: s3c64xx: fix reference leak to master in s3c64xx_spi_remove()

Andi Shyti andi.shyti at samsung.com
Tue Jul 12 21:50:30 PDT 2016


Hi Wei,

> Once a spi_master_get() call succeeds, we need an additional
> spi_master_put() call to free the memory, otherwise we will
> leak a reference to master. Fix by removing the unnecessary
> spi_master_get() call.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei at trendmicro.com.cn>

The patch doesn't have anything wrong, but what you write in the
description is not what you are doing in the patch.

There is no memory allocated in spi_master_get and nothing leaks.
Besides master's resources are managed, so that there would
not be any need to call spi_master_put().

spi_master_put() has been, indeed, removed in this commit:
91800f0e90050a4db4c77e940796f501e02af8be.

But even if you correct the commit log, I don't see much
advantage for this patch on its own.

Thanks,
Andi

> ---
>  drivers/spi/spi-s3c64xx.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-s3c64xx.c b/drivers/spi/spi-s3c64xx.c
> index df88fa1..001c9eb 100644
> --- a/drivers/spi/spi-s3c64xx.c
> +++ b/drivers/spi/spi-s3c64xx.c
> @@ -1211,7 +1211,7 @@ err0:
>  
>  static int s3c64xx_spi_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  {
> -	struct spi_master *master = spi_master_get(platform_get_drvdata(pdev));
> +	struct spi_master *master = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
>  	struct s3c64xx_spi_driver_data *sdd = spi_master_get_devdata(master);
>  
>  	pm_runtime_get_sync(&pdev->dev);
> 
> 
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