[PATCH 1/4] [v4][POWERPC] refactor dcr code

Stephen Neuendorffer stephen.neuendorffer at xilinx.com
Wed May 7 03:34:36 EST 2008


I'll fix it.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt [mailto:benh at kernel.crashing.org]
> Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 9:02 PM
> To: Stephen Rothwell
> Cc: Stephen Neuendorffer; jwboyer at linux.vnet.ibm.com;
grant.likely at secretlab.ca; linuxppc-
> dev at ozlabs.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] [v4][POWERPC] refactor dcr code
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 13:40 +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > Since find_dcr_parent has done a of_node_get on its return value,
you
> > leak a reference to dp here i.e. you need an of_node_put(dp) before
> > you return.
> 
> He inherited that bug from other dcr.c functions I wrote, my fault.
> 
> Stephen (N. not R.), would you mind fixing them while at it or do you
> want me to cook up a patch ?
> 
> Cheers,
> Ben.
> 
> 





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