Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Apr 2016 15:35:16 -0700 | From | Frank Rowand <> | Subject | Re: [RFC/PATCH] of: of_find_node_by_name - stop dropping reference to 'from' node |
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On 4/19/2016 10:05 AM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > Majority of the callers of of_find_node_by_name() do not expect that it > will drop reference to the 'from' node if it was passed in, causing > potential refcount underflows, etc, so let's stop doing this. > > Most of the callers that were handling dropping of reference done by > of_find_node_by_name() actually wanted for_each_node_by_name() instead. > > Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> > --- > > If this is acceptable I can make changes to other of_find_node_*() > methods...
No. It is correct for of_find_by_name() to call of_node_put() for the from argument. The callers should be fixed.
-Frank
> > arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap_hwmod_3xxx_data.c | 2 ++ > arch/powerpc/platforms/83xx/mpc832x_mds.c | 2 +- > arch/powerpc/platforms/83xx/mpc832x_rdb.c | 2 +- > arch/powerpc/platforms/83xx/mpc836x_mds.c | 2 +- > arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/interrupt.c | 3 +-- > arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/setup.c | 3 +-- > arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spider-pic.c | 3 +-- > arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/feature.c | 2 +- > arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/pic.c | 2 -- > drivers/input/misc/twl4030-vibra.c | 8 +------- > drivers/of/base.c | 3 +-- > drivers/pci/hotplug/rpadlpar_core.c | 4 ++-- > drivers/video/backlight/tps65217_bl.c | 4 ++-- > include/linux/of.h | 12 +++++++++--- > 14 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
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> diff --git a/drivers/of/base.c b/drivers/of/base.c > index b299de2..45fc458 100644 > --- a/drivers/of/base.c > +++ b/drivers/of/base.c > @@ -826,7 +826,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(of_find_node_opts_by_path); > * @from: The node to start searching from or NULL, the node > * you pass will not be searched, only the next one > * will; typically, you pass what the previous call > - * returned. of_node_put() will be called on it > + * returned. > * @name: The name string to match against > * > * Returns a node pointer with refcount incremented, use > @@ -843,7 +843,6 @@ struct device_node *of_find_node_by_name(struct device_node *from, > if (np->name && (of_node_cmp(np->name, name) == 0) > && of_node_get(np)) > break; > - of_node_put(from); > raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&devtree_lock, flags); > return np; > }
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