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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn•ch>
To: Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@gmail•com>
Cc: kuba@kernel•org, davem@davemloft•net,
	linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org, lipeng321@huawei•com,
	liuyonglong@huawei•com, mbrugger@suse•com,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org, salil.mehta@huawei•com,
	shenyang39@huawei•com, yisen.zhuang@huawei•com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net: hns: Fix missing put_device() call in hns_mac_register_phy
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2022 14:46:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yd7bnS/jPQgRPD88@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220112103919.28894-1-linmq006@gmail.com>

On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 10:39:19AM +0000, Miaoqian Lin wrote:
> We need to drop the reference taken by hns_dsaf_find_platform_device
> Missing put_device() may cause refcount leak.

Is the put also missing on driver unload?

As a fix for net, it might be better to rename
dsaf_find_platform_device() to dsaf_get_platform_device() and add a
dsaf_put_platform_device(). Add similar undo functions where ever
needed, and make sure they get called.

	Andrew

      reply	other threads:[~2022-01-12 13:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-10  6:40 [PATCH] net: hns: Fix missing put_device() call in hns_mac_register_phy Miaoqian Lin
2022-01-12  4:33 ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-01-12 10:39   ` [PATCH v2] " Miaoqian Lin
2022-01-12 13:46     ` Andrew Lunn [this message]

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