[PATCH v5 5/6] phy: core: Fix an OF node refcount leakage in of_phy_provider_lookup()

Zijun Hu zijun_hu at icloud.com
Wed Nov 6 07:29:21 PST 2024


From: Zijun Hu <quic_zijuhu at quicinc.com>

For macro for_each_child_of_node(parent, child), refcount of @child has
been increased before entering its loop body, so normally needs to call
of_node_put(@child) before returning from the loop body to avoid refcount
leakage.

of_phy_provider_lookup() has such usage but does not call of_node_put()
before returning, so cause leakage of the OF node refcount.

Fix by simply calling of_node_put() before returning from the loop body.

The APIs affected by this issue are shown below since they indirectly
invoke problematic of_phy_provider_lookup().
phy_get()
of_phy_get()
devm_phy_get()
devm_of_phy_get()
devm_of_phy_get_by_index()

Fixes: 2a4c37016ca9 ("phy: core: Fix of_phy_provider_lookup to return PHY provider for sub node")
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Johan Hovold <johan+linaro at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Zijun Hu <quic_zijuhu at quicinc.com>
---
The following kernel mainline commit fixes a similar issue:
Commit: b337cc3ce475 ("backlight: lm3509_bl: Fix early returns in for_each_child_of_node()")
---
 drivers/phy/phy-core.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/phy/phy-core.c b/drivers/phy/phy-core.c
index b88fbda6c046..413f76e2d174 100644
--- a/drivers/phy/phy-core.c
+++ b/drivers/phy/phy-core.c
@@ -145,8 +145,10 @@ static struct phy_provider *of_phy_provider_lookup(struct device_node *node)
 			return phy_provider;
 
 		for_each_child_of_node(phy_provider->children, child)
-			if (child == node)
+			if (child == node) {
+				of_node_put(child);
 				return phy_provider;
+			}
 	}
 
 	return ERR_PTR(-EPROBE_DEFER);

-- 
2.34.1




More information about the linux-phy mailing list