From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
To: Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@linaro.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@baylibre.com>,
Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@baylibre.com>,
Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@googlemail.com>,
Carlo Caione <ccaione@baylibre.com>,
linux-amlogic@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: meson_sm: fix device leak at probe
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2025 11:50:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aK7U7-ebrPcxwEIj@hovoldconsulting.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250725074019.8765-1-johan@kernel.org>
On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 09:40:19AM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> Make sure to drop the reference to the secure monitor device taken by
> of_find_device_by_node() when looking up its driver data on behalf of
> other drivers (e.g. during probe).
>
> Note that holding a reference to the platform device does not prevent
> its driver data from going away so there is no point in keeping the
> reference after the helper returns.
>
> Fixes: 8cde3c2153e8 ("firmware: meson_sm: Rework driver as a proper platform driver")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.5
> Cc: Carlo Caione <ccaione@baylibre.com>
> Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Can someone pick this one up (along with the compile-test patch)?
Johan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-08-27 11:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-07-25 7:40 Johan Hovold
2025-08-02 10:02 ` Martin Blumenstingl
2025-08-03 10:42 ` Markus Elfring
2025-08-27 9:50 ` Johan Hovold [this message]
2025-09-01 12:20 ` Neil Armstrong
2025-09-04 13:28 ` Neil Armstrong
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