[PATCH] powerpc/flipper-pic: Fix device node reference leak in flipper_pic_init

Christophe Leroy christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu
Wed Nov 5 04:26:48 AEDT 2025



Le 27/10/2025 à 16:09, Miaoqian Lin a écrit :
> The flipper_pic_init() function calls of_get_parent() which increases
> the device node reference count, but fails to call of_node_put() to
> balance the reference count.
> 
> Add calls to of_node_put() in all paths to fix the leak.
> 
> Found via static analysis.
> 
> Fixes: 028ee972f032 ("powerpc: gamecube/wii: flipper interrupt controller support")
> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Miaoqian Lin <linmq006 at gmail.com>
> ---
>   arch/powerpc/platforms/embedded6xx/flipper-pic.c | 7 +++++--
>   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/embedded6xx/flipper-pic.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/embedded6xx/flipper-pic.c
> index 91a8f0a7086e..cf6f795c8d76 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/embedded6xx/flipper-pic.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/embedded6xx/flipper-pic.c
> @@ -135,13 +135,13 @@ static struct irq_domain * __init flipper_pic_init(struct device_node *np)
>   	}
>   	if (!of_device_is_compatible(pi, "nintendo,flipper-pi")) {
>   		pr_err("unexpected parent compatible\n");
> -		goto out;
> +		goto out_put_node;
>   	}
>   
>   	retval = of_address_to_resource(pi, 0, &res);
>   	if (retval) {
>   		pr_err("no io memory range found\n");
> -		goto out;
> +		goto out_put_node;
>   	}
>   	io_base = ioremap(res.start, resource_size(&res));
>   
> @@ -154,9 +154,12 @@ static struct irq_domain * __init flipper_pic_init(struct device_node *np)
>   					      &flipper_irq_domain_ops, io_base);
>   	if (!irq_domain) {
>   		pr_err("failed to allocate irq_domain\n");
> +		of_node_put(pi);

irq_domain is NULL here so instead of adding this of_node_put() you 
could just remove below 'return NULL' (and the {} of the if) and 
fallthrough.

>   		return NULL;
>   	}
>   
> +out_put_node:
> +	of_node_put(pi);
>   out:
>   	return irq_domain;
>   }



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