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| author | Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> | 2015-09-24 20:35:52 +0100 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2015-09-24 23:04:52 -0700 |
| commit | a136442131443d929d2d8d243157824de4dfbae8 (patch) | |
| tree | 1a6e439b37d344366bd275e157ac11b867e89f36 /drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c | |
| parent | 17a10c9215b39a5ea8faeb241759c1aee6553919 (diff) | |
phy: fix of_mdio_find_bus() device refcount leak
of_mdio_find_bus() leaks a struct device refcount, caused by using
class_find_device() and not realising that the device reference has
its refcount incremented:
* Note, you will need to drop the reference with put_device() after use.
...
while ((dev = class_dev_iter_next(&iter))) {
if (match(dev, data)) {
get_device(dev);
break;
}
Update the comment, and arrange for the phy code to drop this refcount
when disposing of a reference to it.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c b/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c index 02a4615b65f8..67553e13bd36 100644 --- a/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c +++ b/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c @@ -167,7 +167,9 @@ static int of_mdio_bus_match(struct device *dev, const void *mdio_bus_np) * of_mdio_find_bus - Given an mii_bus node, find the mii_bus. * @mdio_bus_np: Pointer to the mii_bus. * - * Returns a pointer to the mii_bus, or NULL if none found. + * Returns a reference to the mii_bus, or NULL if none found. The + * embedded struct device will have its reference count incremented, + * and this must be put once the bus is finished with. * * Because the association of a device_node and mii_bus is made via * of_mdiobus_register(), the mii_bus cannot be found before it is |