Le 23/09/2020 à 15:35, Dan Carpenter a écrit :
I've added Heikki Krogerus to the CC list because my question is mostly
about commit 59abd83672f7 ("drivers: base: Introducing software nodes to
the firmware node framework").
I have been trying to teach Smatch to understand reference counting so
it can discover these kinds of bugs automatically.
I don't know how software_node_get_next_child() can work when it doesn't
call kobject_get(). This sort of bug would have been caught in testing
because it affects the success path so I must be reading the code wrong.
I had the same reading of the code and thought that I was missing
something somewhere.
There is the same question about 'acpi_get_next_subnode' which is also a
'.get_next_child_node' function, without any ref counting, if I'm correct.
CJ
