[PATCH 2/4] ibmebus: fix further device reference leaks

Johan Hovold johan at kernel.org
Wed Nov 2 02:26:01 AEDT 2016


Make sure to drop any reference taken by bus_find_device() when creating
devices during init and driver registration.

Fixes: 55347cc9962f ("[POWERPC] ibmebus: Add device creation...)
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan at kernel.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/ibmebus.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ibmebus.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ibmebus.c
index c7d3ff7e101c..35f5244782d9 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ibmebus.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ibmebus.c
@@ -180,6 +180,7 @@ static int ibmebus_create_device(struct device_node *dn)
 static int ibmebus_create_devices(const struct of_device_id *matches)
 {
 	struct device_node *root, *child;
+	struct device *dev;
 	int ret = 0;
 
 	root = of_find_node_by_path("/");
@@ -188,9 +189,12 @@ static int ibmebus_create_devices(const struct of_device_id *matches)
 		if (!of_match_node(matches, child))
 			continue;
 
-		if (bus_find_device(&ibmebus_bus_type, NULL, child,
-				    ibmebus_match_node))
+		dev = bus_find_device(&ibmebus_bus_type, NULL, child,
+				      ibmebus_match_node);
+		if (dev) {
+			put_device(dev);
 			continue;
+		}
 
 		ret = ibmebus_create_device(child);
 		if (ret) {
-- 
2.7.3



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