On 2025-09-20 14:53, Ma Ke wrote:
Once of_device_register() failed, we should call put_device() to decrement reference count for cleanup. Or it could cause memory leak. So fix this by calling put_device(), then the name can be freed in kobject_cleanup().
Calling path: of_device_register() -> of_device_add() -> device_add(). As comment of device_add() says, 'if device_add() succeeds, you should call device_del() when you want to get rid of it. If device_add() has not succeeded, use only put_device() to drop the reference count'.
Found by code review.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: cf44bbc26cf1 ("[SPARC]: Beginnings of generic of_device framework.") Signed-off-by: Ma Ke make24@iscas.ac.cn
Changes in v3:
- also fixed the same problem in arch/sparc/kernel/of_device_32.c as suggestions.
Changes in v2:
- retained kfree() manually due to the lack of a release callback function.
arch/sparc/kernel/of_device_32.c | 1 + arch/sparc/kernel/of_device_64.c | 1 + 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/of_device_32.c b/arch/sparc/kernel/of_device_32.c index 06012e68bdca..284a4cafa432 100644 --- a/arch/sparc/kernel/of_device_32.c +++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/of_device_32.c @@ -387,6 +387,7 @@ static struct platform_device * __init scan_one_device(struct device_node *dp, if (of_device_register(op)) { printk("%pOF: Could not register of device.\n", dp);
put_device(&op->dev);diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/of_device_64.c b/arch/sparc/kernel/of_device_64.c index f98c2901f335..f53092b07b9e 100644 --- a/arch/sparc/kernel/of_device_64.c +++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/of_device_64.c @@ -677,6 +677,7 @@ static struct platform_device * __init scan_one_device(struct device_node *dp, if (of_device_register(op)) { printk("%pOF: Could not register of device.\n", dp);
put_device(&op->dev);
Reviewed-by: Andreas Larsson andreas@gaisler.com
Picking this up to my for-next.
Thanks, Andreas