On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
<benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 07:58 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>
>> Ben,
>>
>> in drivers/pci/probe.c::pci_scan_device() there is
>>
>> pci_set_of_node(dev);
>>
>> if (pci_setup_device(dev)) {
>> kfree(dev);
>> return NULL;
>> }
>>
>> so if pci_setup_device fails, there is one dev reference is not release.
>>
>> please check you can just move down pci_set_of_node down after that
>> failing path, like
>>
>>
>> if (pci_setup_device(dev)) {
>> kfree(dev);
>> return NULL;
>> }
>>
>> pci_set_of_node(dev);
>
> No, we want the OF node set when we run the quirks, we intentionally do
> that early, the right thing to do is to to call pci_release_of_node()
> in the error path (it's safe to call even if the node is NULL).
>
Good.
We have two options.
1. can you please submit one complete patch, and get it merged into v3.10.
2. put it together with pci_alloc_dev patchset towards to v3.11?
Thanks
Yinghai
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