[PATCH] drivers: soc: atmel: Fix refcount leak in atmel_soc_device_init

Sudeep Holla sudeep.holla at arm.com
Mon Jun 6 02:22:16 PDT 2022


On Mon, Jun 06, 2022 at 09:00:52AM +0000, Claudiu.Beznea at microchip.com wrote:
> On 05.06.2022 11:40, Miaoqian Lin wrote:
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> > 
> > of_find_node_by_path() returns a node pointer with refcount incremented,
> > we should use of_node_put() on it when not need anymore.
> > Add missing of_node_put() to avoid refcount leak.
> > 
> > Fixes: 960ddf70cc11 ("drivers: soc: atmel: Avoid calling at91_soc_init on non AT91 SoCs")
> > Signed-off-by: Miaoqian Lin <linmq006 at gmail.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/soc/atmel/soc.c | 5 ++++-
> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/soc/atmel/soc.c b/drivers/soc/atmel/soc.c
> > index b2d365ae0282..46dfa24c52fb 100644
> > --- a/drivers/soc/atmel/soc.c
> > +++ b/drivers/soc/atmel/soc.c
> > @@ -369,10 +369,13 @@ static int __init atmel_soc_device_init(void)
> >  {
> >         struct device_node *np = of_find_node_by_path("/");
> > 
> 
> What about having it like this:
> 	const struct of_device_id *of_id;
> 
> 	of_id = of_match_node(at91_soc_allowed_list, np);
> 	of_node_put(np);

+1, I was about to make similar suggestion in couple of other patches making
similar changes.

-- 
Regards,
Sudeep



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