The patch titled drivers/macintosh: Add missing of_node_put in therm_adt746x.c has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is drivers-macintosh-add-missing-of_node_put-in-therm_adt746xc.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: drivers/macintosh: Add missing of_node_put in therm_adt746x.c From: Nicolas Palix <npalix@xxxxxxx> of_node_put is needed before discarding a value received from of_find_node_by_name, eg in error handling code or when the device node is no longer used. The semantic match that catches the bug is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // <smpl> @r exists@ local idexpression struct device_node *n; position p1, p2; struct device_node *n1; statement S; identifier f; expression E; expression *ptr != NULL; @@ n@p1 = of_find_node_by_name(...) ... if (!n) S ... when != of_node_put(n) when != n1 = f(n,...) when != E = n when any when strict ( return \(0\|<+...n...+>\|ptr\); | return@p2 ...; | of_node_put(n); | n1 = f(n,...) | E = n ) @script:python@ p1 << r.p1; p2 << r.p2; @@ print "* file: %s of_find_node_by_name %s return %s" % (p1[0].file,p1[0].line,p2[0].line) // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Palix <npalix@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/macintosh/therm_adt746x.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/macintosh/therm_adt746x.c~drivers-macintosh-add-missing-of_node_put-in-therm_adt746xc drivers/macintosh/therm_adt746x.c --- a/drivers/macintosh/therm_adt746x.c~drivers-macintosh-add-missing-of_node_put-in-therm_adt746xc +++ a/drivers/macintosh/therm_adt746x.c @@ -554,7 +554,7 @@ thermostat_init(void) const u32 *prop; int i = 0, offset = 0; int err; - + np = of_find_node_by_name(NULL, "fan"); if (!np) return -ENODEV; @@ -613,13 +613,13 @@ thermostat_init(void) } of_dev = of_platform_device_create(np, "temperatures", NULL); - + of_node_put(np); + if (of_dev == NULL) { printk(KERN_ERR "Can't register temperatures device !\n"); - of_node_put(np); return -ENODEV; } - + err = device_create_file(&of_dev->dev, &dev_attr_sensor1_temperature); err |= device_create_file(&of_dev->dev, &dev_attr_sensor2_temperature); err |= device_create_file(&of_dev->dev, &dev_attr_sensor1_limit); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from npalix@xxxxxxx are linux-next.patch powerpc-chrp-add-missing-of_node_put-in-pcic.patch drivers-macintosh-add-missing-of_node_put-in-therm_adt746xc.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html