[PATCH 1/9] of: Add warpper function of_find_node_by_name_balanced()

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 08:07:32PM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 06:30:10PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > Whatever happened with this thread from Feb.
> > https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250207013117.104205-1-zhangzekun11@huawei.com/
> > 
> > The issue was that people weren't expecting of_find_node_by_name() to
> > drop the reference on the of_node.  The patchset introduced a wrapper
> > which basically worked as expected except no liked the naming.  Krzysztof
> > suggested that maybe the callers should be using of_get_child_by_name()
> > instead.
> 
> My conclusion is that most of the users of of_find_node_by_name() with a
> non-NULL first argument are wrong, and should be replaced by
> of_get_child_by_name(). We need a volunteer to do that work.

Wouldn't be coccinelle a good worker for this job done?

> > I created a Smatch warning for this and here are the four issues it
> > found.  The line numbers are from linux-next.
> > 
> > drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/asp2/bcmasp.c:1370 bcmasp_probe() warn: 'dev->of_node' was not incremented
> > drivers/net/pse-pd/tps23881.c:505 tps23881_get_of_channels() warn: 'priv->np' was not incremented
> > drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/core.c:301 venus_add_video_core() warn: 'dev->of_node' was not incremented
> > drivers/regulator/tps6594-regulator.c:618 tps6594_regulator_probe() warn: 'tps->dev->of_node' was not incremented

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko