Re: [PATCH v5 1/6] of: Decrement refcount of previous endpoint in of_graph_get_next_endpoint

[Guennadi Liakhovetski]

On Sun, 9 Nov 2014, Philipp Zabel wrote:

> Hi Guennadi,
> 
> On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 11:06:21PM +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> > Hi Philipp,
> > 
> > Thanks for the patch and sorry for a late reply. I did look at your 
> > patches earlier too, but maybe not attentively enough, or maybe I'm 
> > misunderstanding something now. In the scan_of_host() function in 
> > soc_camera.c as of current -next I see:
> > 
> > 		epn = of_graph_get_next_endpoint(np, epn);
> > 
> > which already looks like a refcount leak to me. If epn != NULL, its 
> > refcount is incremented, but then immediately the variable gets 
> > overwritten, and there's no extra copy of that variable to fix this. If 
> > I'm right, then that bug in itself should be fixed, ideally before your 
> > patch is applied. But in fact, your patch fixes this, since it modifies 
> > of_graph_get_next_endpoint() to return with prev's refcount not 
> > incremented, right? Whereas the of_node_put(epn) later down in 
> > scan_of_host() decrements refcount of the _next_ endpoint, not the 
> > previous one, so, it should be left alone? I.e. AFAICT your modification 
> > to of_graph_get_next_endpoint() fixes soc_camera.c with no further 
> > modifications to it required?
> 
> You are right. With the old implementation, you'd have to do the
> epn = of_graph_get_next_endpoint(np, prev); of_node_put(prev); prev = epn;
> dance to avoid leaking a reference to the first endpoint. This series
> accidentally fixes soc_camera by changing of_graph_get_next_endpoint
> to decrement the reference count itself.

Right, so, the patch has to be adjusted not to touch soc_camera.c at all.

Thanks
Guennadi

> 
> regards
> Philipp
> 
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