[PATCH] powerpc/pseries: Fix possible leaked device node reference

Nathan Fontenot nfont at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Apr 30 11:44:58 AEST 2015


Failure return from dlpar_configure_connector when dlpar adding cpus
results in leaking references to the cpus parent device node. Move the
call to of_node_put() prior to checking the result of
dlpar_configure_connector.

Fixes: 8d5ff320766f ("powerpc/pseries: Make dlpar_configure_connector parent node aware")

Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dlpar.c |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dlpar.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dlpar.c
index 019d34a..47d9cebe 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dlpar.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dlpar.c
@@ -421,11 +421,10 @@ static ssize_t dlpar_cpu_probe(const char *buf, size_t count)
 		return -ENODEV;
 
 	dn = dlpar_configure_connector(cpu_to_be32(drc_index), parent);
+	of_node_put(parent);
 	if (!dn)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	of_node_put(parent);
-
 	rc = dlpar_attach_node(dn);
 	if (rc) {
 		dlpar_release_drc(drc_index);



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