Re: [PATCH] regulator: core: Fix memory leak in regulator_resolve_supply()

[Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>]

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On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 10:38:38AM +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> On 07/15/2015 10:01 AM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:

> > The _regulator_put() reverts more work than create_regulator() did,
> > e.g.: module_put and rdev->open_count--. Maybe you need a
> > destroy_regulator() function?

> Yes, it reverts more work than create_regulator() but the intention is to
> revert what set_supply() did. If you look at the set_supply() function,
> it does supply_rdev->open_count++.

> I did indeed missed the module_put() but now looking at the code again, I

Me too, I've dropped the patch.  At first glance everything looked safe
for multiple calls.

> wonder if the problem is not that set_supply() is missing a try_module_get()
> to be consistent with what the _regulator_get() function does.

The problem is more that it's a separate implementation and not just
using _regulator_get() I think.  A separate, rarely used, path is likely
to have this sort of issue.

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