[PATCH] coresight: drop lookup reference in coresight_get_sink_by_id()

Ma Ke make24 at iscas.ac.cn
Tue May 19 01:43:17 PDT 2026


bus_find_device() returns a device with its reference count
incremented. coresight_get_sink_by_id() only uses the returned device
to find the matching CoreSight sink by id and does not need to
transfer this lookup reference to its callers.

Keeping the reference forces callers such as etm_setup_aux() to know
about the internal lookup implementation and to drop the reference
themselves. This is error-prone and led to a leaked reference when a
user-selected sink is used for perf AUX tracing.

Drop the reference inside coresight_get_sink_by_id() after converting
the device to the corresponding coresight_device. The CoreSight path
code takes device references it needs when building/using the path.

Found by code review.

Signed-off-by: Ma Ke <make24 at iscas.ac.cn>
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 226443925887 ("coresight: Use event attributes for sink selection")
---
 drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-core.c | 15 ++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-core.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-core.c
index 46f247f73cf6..2cca4ed83e2c 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-core.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-core.c
@@ -624,11 +624,24 @@ static int coresight_sink_by_id(struct device *dev, const void *data)
 struct coresight_device *coresight_get_sink_by_id(u32 id)
 {
 	struct device *dev = NULL;
+	struct coresight_device *csdev;
 
 	dev = bus_find_device(&coresight_bustype, NULL, &id,
 			      coresight_sink_by_id);
+	if (!dev)
+		return NULL;
+
+	csdev = to_coresight_device(dev);
+
+	/*
+	 * bus_find_device() returns a device with its reference count
+	 * incremented. coresight_get_sink_by_id() only performs a lookup;
+	 * the CoreSight path code takes the references it needs when the
+	 * path is built, so drop the lookup reference here.
+	 */
+	put_device(dev);
 
-	return dev ? to_coresight_device(dev) : NULL;
+	return csdev;
 }
 
 /**
-- 
2.43.0




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