[PATCH] firmware: psci: Fix refcount leak in psci_dt_init

Sudeep Holla sudeep.holla at arm.com
Wed Mar 19 04:39:22 PDT 2025


On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 11:12:02AM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 10:46:49AM +0000, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 08:28:38PM +1000, Gavin Shan wrote:
> 
> > Any reason why we can't move to the new scoped usage like below?
> 
> > diff --git i/drivers/firmware/psci/psci.c w/drivers/firmware/psci/psci.c
> > index a1ebbe9b73b1..a4269078b2a2 100644
> > --- i/drivers/firmware/psci/psci.c
> > +++ w/drivers/firmware/psci/psci.c
> > @@ -797,12 +797,11 @@ static const struct of_device_id psci_of_match[] __initconst = {
> > 
> >  int __init psci_dt_init(void)
> >  {
> > -       struct device_node *np;
> >         const struct of_device_id *matched_np;
> >         psci_initcall_t init_fn;
> >         int ret;
> > -
> > -       np = of_find_matching_node_and_match(NULL, psci_of_match, &matched_np);
> > +       struct device_node *np __free(device_node) =
> > +               of_find_matching_node_and_match(NULL, psci_of_match, &matched_np);
> > 
> >         if (!np || !of_device_is_available(np))
> >                 return -ENODEV;
> > @@ -810,7 +809,6 @@ int __init psci_dt_init(void)
> >         init_fn = (psci_initcall_t)matched_np->data;
> >         ret = init_fn(np);
> > 
> > -       of_node_put(np);
> >         return ret;
> >  }
> 
> IIUC the bug has existed since before the scoped helpers were
> introduced, so for the sake of keeping the backport simple I reckon we
> should take Miaoqian Lin's patch as-is, and we can consider moving to
> the scoped helpers as a later cleanup.
> 

Agreed.

-- 
Regards,
Sudeep



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