[PATCH] bus: vexpress-config: Fix device node reference leak in probe
Liviu Dudau
liviu.dudau at arm.com
Thu Jan 22 05:30:52 PST 2026
Hello,
On Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 08:33:04PM +0800, Felix Gu wrote:
> In vexpress_syscfg_probe(), of_parse_phandle() is called inside a loop
> but the returned device_node reference is never released.
> Fix this by using the __free(device_node) cleanup handler to automatically
> release the reference when the variable goes out of scope.
>
> Fixes: a5a38765ac79b ("bus: vexpress-config: simplify config bus probing")
> Signed-off-by: Felix Gu <ustc.gu at gmail.com>
> ---
> drivers/bus/vexpress-config.c | 6 +++---
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/bus/vexpress-config.c b/drivers/bus/vexpress-config.c
> index 64ee920721ee..a1fa583e9f5d 100644
> --- a/drivers/bus/vexpress-config.c
> +++ b/drivers/bus/vexpress-config.c
> @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
> * Copyright (C) 2014 ARM Limited
> */
>
> +#include <linux/cleanup.h>
Not sure this is needed. of.h includes cleanup.h, so we don't run the risk of
not getting the cleanup macros defined.
> #include <linux/err.h>
> #include <linux/init.h>
> #include <linux/io.h>
> @@ -390,9 +391,8 @@ static int vexpress_syscfg_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> }
>
> for_each_compatible_node(node, NULL, "arm,vexpress,config-bus") {
> - struct device_node *bridge_np;
> -
> - bridge_np = of_parse_phandle(node, "arm,vexpress,config-bridge", 0);
> + struct device_node *bridge_np __free(device_node) =
> + of_parse_phandle(node, "arm,vexpress,config-bridge", 0);
> if (bridge_np != pdev->dev.parent->of_node)
> continue;
>
Otherwise, patch looks good to me. Thanks for the fix!
Acked-by: Liviu Dudau <liviu.dudau at arm.com>
Best regards,
Liviu
>
> ---
> base-commit: 053966c344dbd346e71305f530e91ea77916189f
> change-id: 20260122-b4-vexpress-config-1d2051861d93
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Felix Gu <ustc.gu at gmail.com>
>
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