The call to of_parse_phandle() returns a node pointer with refcount incremented thus it must be explicitly decremented here after the last usage. The of_find_device_by_node() takes a reference to the underlying device structure, we also should release that reference. Hans Verkuil says: The cec driver should never take a reference of the hdmi device. It never accesses the HDMI device, it only needs the HDMI device pointer as a key in the notifier list. The real problem is that several CEC drivers take a reference of the HDMI device and never release it. So those drivers need to be fixed. This patch fixes those two issues. Fixes: fc4e009c6c98 ("[media] stih-cec: add CEC notifier support") Suggested-by: Hans Verkuil (hansverk) <hansverk@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Wen Yang <wen.yang99@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hans Verkuil (hansverk) <hansverk@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Wen Yang <yellowriver2010@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-media@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- v2->v1: - move of_node_put() to just after the 'hdmi_dev = of_find_device_by_node(np)'. - put_device() can be done before the cec = devm_kzalloc line. drivers/media/platform/sti/cec/stih-cec.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/sti/cec/stih-cec.c b/drivers/media/platform/sti/cec/stih-cec.c index d34099f..721021f 100644 --- a/drivers/media/platform/sti/cec/stih-cec.c +++ b/drivers/media/platform/sti/cec/stih-cec.c @@ -317,9 +317,11 @@ static int stih_cec_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) } hdmi_dev = of_find_device_by_node(np); + of_node_put(np); if (!hdmi_dev) return -EPROBE_DEFER; + put_device(&hdmi_dev->dev); cec->notifier = cec_notifier_get(&hdmi_dev->dev); if (!cec->notifier) return -ENOMEM; -- 2.9.5