[PATCH 3/5] powerpc/powernv: fix possible object reference leak

Wen Yang wen.yang99 at zte.com.cn
Fri Mar 22 14:05:53 AEDT 2019


The call to of_find_node_by_path returns a node pointer with refcount
incremented thus it must be explicitly decremented after the last
usage.

Detected by coccinelle with the following warnings:
./arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal.c:741:2-8: ERROR: missing of_node_put; acquired a node pointer with refcount incremented on line 733, but without a corresponding object release within this function.

Signed-off-by: Wen Yang <wen.yang99 at zte.com.cn>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt at linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Haren Myneni <haren at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
---
 arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal.c
index 2b0eca1..d7736a5 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal.c
@@ -738,6 +738,7 @@ static void opal_export_attrs(void)
 	kobj = kobject_create_and_add("exports", opal_kobj);
 	if (!kobj) {
 		pr_warn("kobject_create_and_add() of exports failed\n");
+		of_node_put(np);
 		return;
 	}
 
-- 
2.9.5



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