[PATCH v2] USB: ohci-nxp: Fix error handling in ohci-hcd-nxp driver

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 09:34:28AM +0800, Ma Ke wrote:
> When obtaining the ISP1301 I2C client through the device tree, the
> driver does not release the device reference in the probe failure path
> or in the remove function. This could cause a reference count leak,
> which may prevent the device from being properly unbound or freed,
> leading to resource leakage.
> 
> Fix this by storing whether the client was obtained via device tree
> and only releasing the reference in that case.
> 
> Found by code review.
> 
> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
> Fixes: 73108aa90cbf ("USB: ohci-nxp: Use isp1301 driver")
> Signed-off-by: Ma Ke <make24 at iscas.ac.cn>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - only released the device reference when the ISP1301 client was obtained through device tree, not in the non-DT case where the global variable is used;
> - removed unnecessary NULL checks as suggested by reviewer.
> ---
>  drivers/usb/host/ohci-nxp.c | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/host/ohci-nxp.c b/drivers/usb/host/ohci-nxp.c
> index 24d5a1dc5056..081b8c7f21a0 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/host/ohci-nxp.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/host/ohci-nxp.c
> @@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ static const char hcd_name[] = "ohci-nxp";
>  static struct hc_driver __read_mostly ohci_nxp_hc_driver;
>  
>  static struct i2c_client *isp1301_i2c_client;
> +static bool isp1301_using_dt;

This will not work for multiple devices in the system :(

Please add this to the device-specific structure instead.

thanks,

greg k-h