[PATCH] mtd: spi-nor: aspeed-smc: Add of_node_put()

Andrew Jeffery andrew at aj.id.au
Fri Aug 9 10:38:45 AEST 2019



On Thu, 8 Aug 2019, at 17:21, Nishka Dasgupta wrote:
> Each iteration of for_each_available_child_of_node puts the previous
> node, but in the case of a break from the middle of the loop, there is
> no put, thus causing a memory leak. Upon termination of the loop
> (whether by break or a natural exit), either ret will have a non-zero
> value or child will be NULL. Hence add an of_node_put() that will
> execute only when ret has a non-zero value, as calling of_node_put() on
> a possible NULL value does not cause any further issues.
> Issue found with Coccinelle.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nishka Dasgupta <nishkadg.linux at gmail.com>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Jeffery <andrew at aj.id.au>


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