[PATCH] staging: board: drop refcount in success case

Nicholas Mc Guire hofrat at osadl.org
Mon Jun 18 18:53:19 UTC 2018


 The call to of_find_compatible_node() returns irqc_node with refcount
incremented thus it must be explicitly decremented here after it was
checked for non-NULL.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat at osadl.org>
Fixes: commit 72ee8626eeb1 ("staging: board: Add support for translating hwirq to virq numbers")
---

Problem located with an experimental coccinelle script

Patch was compile-tested with: x86_64_defconfig + STAGING=y, STAGING_BOARD=y

Patch is against 4.18-rc1 (localversion-next is next-20180618)

 drivers/staging/board/board.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/board/board.c b/drivers/staging/board/board.c
index cb6feb3..8ee48e5 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/board/board.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/board/board.c
@@ -64,12 +64,13 @@ int __init board_staging_gic_setup_xlate(const char *gic_match,
 	irqc_node = of_find_compatible_node(NULL, NULL, gic_match);
 
 	WARN_ON(!irqc_node);
 	if (!irqc_node)
 		return -ENOENT;
 
+	of_node_put(irqc_node);
 	irqc_base = base;
 	return 0;
 }
 
 static void __init gic_fixup_resource(struct resource *res)
 {
-- 
2.1.4



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