On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 07:12:22AM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Nov 2015, Brian Norris wrote:
> >
> > This reminds me of a potential problem I'm looking at in other
> > subsystems: from code reading (I haven't seen any issues in practice,
> > probably because I don't use OF_DYNAMIC) it looks like device-creating
> > infrastructure like the PHY subsystem should be acquiring a reference to
> > the device_node when they stash it away. But drivers/phy/phy-core.c does
> > not do this, AFAICT.
> >
> > See phy_create(), which does
> >
> > phy->dev.of_node = node ?: dev->of_node;
> >
> > and later might reuse this of_node pointer, even though it never called
> > of_node_get() on this node.
> >
> > Potential patch to fix this (not tested).
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/phy/phy-core.c b/drivers/phy/phy-core.c
> > index fc48fac003a6..8df29caeeef9 100644
> > --- a/drivers/phy/phy-core.c
> > +++ b/drivers/phy/phy-core.c
> > @@ -697,6 +697,7 @@ struct phy *phy_create(struct device *dev, struct device_node *node,
> > phy->dev.class = phy_class;
> > phy->dev.parent = dev;
> > phy->dev.of_node = node ?: dev->of_node;
> > + of_node_get(phy->dev.of_node);
>
> Why not put of_node_get around dev->of_node?
Like this?
phy->dev.of_node = node ?: of_node_get(dev->of_node);
Or this?
phy->dev.of_node = of_node_get(node ?: dev->of_node);
The former wouldn't do what I proposed; if this PHY device is created
with a sub-node of 'dev' rather than dev->of_node, then the caller will
pass it in as the 2nd argument to phy_create (i.e., 'node'), and then I
expect it's the PHY core's responsibility to refcount it.
I'd be fine with the latter. Looks a little better, I suppose.
If my understanding is correct, I'll send a proper patch to do the
latter.
Regards,
Brian
> julia
>
> > phy->id = id;
> > phy->ops = ops;
> >
> > @@ -726,6 +727,7 @@ struct phy *phy_create(struct device *dev, struct device_node *node,
> > return phy;
> >
> > put_dev:
> > + of_node_put(phy->dev.of_node);
> > put_device(&phy->dev); /* calls phy_release() which frees resources */
> > return ERR_PTR(ret);
> >
> > @@ -775,6 +777,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(devm_phy_create);
> > */
> > void phy_destroy(struct phy *phy)
> > {
> > + of_node_put(phy->dev.of_node);
> > pm_runtime_disable(&phy->dev);
> > device_unregister(&phy->dev);
> > }
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