Re: [PATCH v2] soc: bcm: brcmstb: Don't leak device tree node reference

From: Frank Lee
Date: Mon Nov 26 2018 - 09:43:02 EST


On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 10:52 PM Yangtao Li <tiny.windzz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> of_find_node_by_path() acquires a reference to the node returned by it
> and that reference needs to be dropped by its caller. soc_is_brcmstb()
> doesn't do that, so fix it.
>
> [treding: slightly rewrite to avoid inline comparison]
>
> Signed-off-by: Yangtao Li <tiny.windzz@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> -update changelog
> -slightly rewrite to avoid inline comparison
> ---
> drivers/soc/bcm/brcmstb/common.c | 6 +++++-
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/soc/bcm/brcmstb/common.c b/drivers/soc/bcm/brcmstb/common.c
> index 14185451901d..bf9123f727e8 100644
> --- a/drivers/soc/bcm/brcmstb/common.c
> +++ b/drivers/soc/bcm/brcmstb/common.c
> @@ -31,13 +31,17 @@ static const struct of_device_id brcmstb_machine_match[] = {
>
> bool soc_is_brcmstb(void)
> {
> + const struct of_device_id *match;
> struct device_node *root;
>
> root = of_find_node_by_path("/");
> if (!root)
> return false;
>
> - return of_match_node(brcmstb_machine_match, root) != NULL;
> + match = of_match_node(brcmstb_machine_match, root);
> + of_node_put(root);
> +
> + return match != NULL;
> }
>
> u32 brcmstb_get_family_id(void)
> --
> 2.17.0
>
Hi Florian:

How about this ?

MBR,
Yangtao