[GIT PULL] ARM: vexpress: Fixes for v7.4

Sudeep Holla sudeep.holla at kernel.org
Wed Oct 7 08:00:31 PDT 2026


Hi ARM SoC Team,

Please pull ! These came in recently and are in -next for a week now.
I am sending these early for v7.4 as fixes instead of waiting until -rc1.

Regards,
Sudeep

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The following changes since commit cee9395acd8043be0644b25c34bfa86623f2b935:

  Linux 7.3-rc1 (2026-08-30 13:34:40 -0700)

are available in the Git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sudeep.holla/linux.git tags/vexpress-fixes-7.4

for you to fetch changes up to 27b98d331f1dcebe088ab51a7061a387a7440cb2:

  ARM: vexpress: fix device_node refcount leak in vexpress_smp_dt_prepare_cpus() (2026-10-01 09:37:40 +0100)

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ARM: vexpress: Fixes for v7.4

Couple of device tree node references acquired during VExpress SMP
preparation were never released. Add `__free(device_node)` to the node
pointers in `vexpress_flags_set()` and `vexpress_smp_dt_prepare_cpus()`
so their references are dropped when each function returns.

Both leaks occur once during boot and have no known functional impact.

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Weigang He (2):
      ARM: vexpress: fix device_node refcount leak in vexpress_flags_set()
      ARM: vexpress: fix device_node refcount leak in vexpress_smp_dt_prepare_cpus()

 arch/arm/mach-versatile/platsmp-vexpress.c | 4 ++--
 arch/arm/mach-versatile/v2m.c              | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)



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