Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] mt76: fix a leaked reference by adding a missing of_node_put

From: Kalle Valo <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 08:39:05 +0000 (UTC)

Wen Yang <[email-masked]> wrote:

> The call to of_find_node_by_phandle returns a node pointer with refcount
> incremented thus it must be explicitly decremented after the last
> usage.
> 
> Detected by coccinelle with the following warnings:
> ./drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/eeprom.c:58:2-8: ERROR: missing of_node_put; acquired a node pointer with refcount incremented on line 48, but without a corresponding object release within this function.
> ./drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/eeprom.c:61:2-8: ERROR: missing of_node_put; acquired a node pointer with refcount incremented on line 48, but without a corresponding object release within this function.
> ./drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/eeprom.c:67:2-8: ERROR: missing of_node_put; acquired a node pointer with refcount incremented on line 48, but without a corresponding object release within this function.
> ./drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/eeprom.c:70:2-8: ERROR: missing of_node_put; acquired a node pointer with refcount incremented on line 48, but without a corresponding object release within this function.
> ./drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/eeprom.c:72:1-7: ERROR: missing of_node_put; acquired a node pointer with refcount incremented on line 48, but without a corresponding object release within this function.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wen Yang <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Felix Fietkau <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Lorenzo Bianconi <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Kalle Valo <[email-masked]>
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Matthias Brugger <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked]
> Cc: [email-masked]
> Cc: [email-masked]
> Cc: [email-masked]
> Cc: [email-masked]

Patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks.

34e022d8b780 mt76: fix a leaked reference by adding a missing of_node_put

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https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10825315/

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