This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mtd: partitions: Fix refcount leak in parse_redboot_of
to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
mtd-partitions-fix-refcount-leak-in-parse_redboot_of.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 92b2e8da3ec362da8a08550cbbdcce8ec0627306
Author: Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu May 26 15:06:49 2022 +0400
mtd: partitions: Fix refcount leak in parse_redboot_of
[ Upstream commit 9f7e62815cf3cbbcb1b8cb21649fb4dfdb3aa016 ]
of_get_child_by_name() returns a node pointer with refcount
incremented, we should use of_node_put() on it when not need anymore.
Add missing of_node_put() to avoid refcount leak.
Fixes: 237960880960 ("mtd: partitions: redboot: seek fis-index-block in the right node")
Signed-off-by: Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mtd/20220526110652.64849-1-linmq006@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/parsers/redboot.c b/drivers/mtd/parsers/redboot.c
index 3ccd6363ee8c..4f3bcc59a638 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/parsers/redboot.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/parsers/redboot.c
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ static void parse_redboot_of(struct mtd_info *master)
return;
ret = of_property_read_u32(npart, "fis-index-block", &dirblock);
+ of_node_put(npart);
if (ret)
return;
