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: 9d2d60687c9a ("media: tegra-cec: add Tegra HDMI CEC driver") Suggested-by: Hans Verkuil (hansverk) <hansverk@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Wen Yang <wen.yang99@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hans Verkuil (hansverk) <hansverk@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jonathan Hunter <jonathanh@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Wen Yang <yellowriver2010@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-tegra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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/tegra-cec/tegra_cec.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/tegra-cec/tegra_cec.c b/drivers/media/platform/tegra-cec/tegra_cec.c index aba488c..e99991b 100644 --- a/drivers/media/platform/tegra-cec/tegra_cec.c +++ b/drivers/media/platform/tegra-cec/tegra_cec.c @@ -340,9 +340,11 @@ static int tegra_cec_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) return -ENODEV; } hdmi_dev = of_find_device_by_node(np); + of_node_put(np); if (hdmi_dev == NULL) return -EPROBE_DEFER; + put_device(&hdmi_dev->dev); cec = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(struct tegra_cec), GFP_KERNEL); if (!cec) -- 2.9.5