Hello Samin Guo, The patch 4bd3bb7b4526: "net: stmmac: Add glue layer for StarFive JH7110 SoC" from Apr 17, 2023, leads to the following Smatch static checker warning: drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-starfive.c:148 starfive_dwmac_probe() warn: inconsistent refcounting 'plat_dat->mdio_node->kobj.kref.refcount.refs.counter': inc on: 113,117,122,140 dec on: 145 drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-starfive.c 93 static int starfive_dwmac_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) 94 { 95 struct plat_stmmacenet_data *plat_dat; 96 struct stmmac_resources stmmac_res; 97 struct starfive_dwmac *dwmac; 98 struct clk *clk_gtx; 99 int err; 100 101 err = stmmac_get_platform_resources(pdev, &stmmac_res); 102 if (err) 103 return dev_err_probe(&pdev->dev, err, 104 "failed to get resources\n"); 105 106 plat_dat = stmmac_probe_config_dt(pdev, stmmac_res.mac); 107 if (IS_ERR(plat_dat)) 108 return dev_err_probe(&pdev->dev, PTR_ERR(plat_dat), 109 "dt configuration failed\n"); All the error paths after stmmac_probe_config_dt() succeeds should call stmmac_remove_config_dt() but only the last one does. 110 111 dwmac = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*dwmac), GFP_KERNEL); 112 if (!dwmac) 113 return -ENOMEM; 114 115 dwmac->clk_tx = devm_clk_get_enabled(&pdev->dev, "tx"); 116 if (IS_ERR(dwmac->clk_tx)) 117 return dev_err_probe(&pdev->dev, PTR_ERR(dwmac->clk_tx), 118 "error getting tx clock\n"); 119 120 clk_gtx = devm_clk_get_enabled(&pdev->dev, "gtx"); 121 if (IS_ERR(clk_gtx)) 122 return dev_err_probe(&pdev->dev, PTR_ERR(clk_gtx), 123 "error getting gtx clock\n"); 124 125 /* Generally, the rgmii_tx clock is provided by the internal clock, 126 * which needs to match the corresponding clock frequency according 127 * to different speeds. If the rgmii_tx clock is provided by the 128 * external rgmii_rxin, there is no need to configure the clock 129 * internally, because rgmii_rxin will be adaptively adjusted. 130 */ 131 if (!device_property_read_bool(&pdev->dev, "starfive,tx-use-rgmii-clk")) 132 plat_dat->fix_mac_speed = starfive_dwmac_fix_mac_speed; 133 134 dwmac->dev = &pdev->dev; 135 plat_dat->bsp_priv = dwmac; 136 plat_dat->dma_cfg->dche = true; 137 138 err = starfive_dwmac_set_mode(plat_dat); 139 if (err) 140 return err; 141 142 err = stmmac_dvr_probe(&pdev->dev, plat_dat, &stmmac_res); 143 if (err) { 144 stmmac_remove_config_dt(pdev, plat_dat); 145 return err; 146 } 147 --> 148 return 0; 149 } regards, dan carpenter