[PATCH] firmware: meson_sm: fix device leak at probe

Neil Armstrong neil.armstrong at linaro.org
Mon Sep 1 05:20:33 PDT 2025


On 27/08/2025 11:50, Johan Hovold wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 09:40:19AM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
>> Make sure to drop the reference to the secure monitor device taken by
>> of_find_device_by_node() when looking up its driver data on behalf of
>> other drivers (e.g. during probe).
>>
>> Note that holding a reference to the platform device does not prevent
>> its driver data from going away so there is no point in keeping the
>> reference after the helper returns.
>>
>> Fixes: 8cde3c2153e8 ("firmware: meson_sm: Rework driver as a proper platform driver")
>> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org	# 5.5
>> Cc: Carlo Caione <ccaione at baylibre.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan at kernel.org>
> 
> Can someone pick this one up (along with the compile-test patch)?

I'll pick it.

Neil

> 
> Johan




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