This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mips: lantiq: xway: Fix refcount leak bug in sysctrl
to the 4.9-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:
mips-lantiq-xway-fix-refcount-leak-bug-in-sysctrl.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit b3ff2f4b52221161b17864edb6ba5a78b03a3fba
Author: Liang He <windhl@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Jun 17 20:25:05 2022 +0800
mips: lantiq: xway: Fix refcount leak bug in sysctrl
[ Upstream commit 76695592711ef1e215cc24ed3e1cd857d7fc3098 ]
In ltq_soc_init(), of_find_compatible_node() will return a node
pointer with refcount incremented. We should use of_node_put() when
it is not used anymore.
Signed-off-by: Liang He <windhl@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/arch/mips/lantiq/xway/sysctrl.c b/arch/mips/lantiq/xway/sysctrl.c
index dd7c36a193e3..6891456a7603 100644
--- a/arch/mips/lantiq/xway/sysctrl.c
+++ b/arch/mips/lantiq/xway/sysctrl.c
@@ -457,6 +457,10 @@ void __init ltq_soc_init(void)
of_address_to_resource(np_ebu, 0, &res_ebu))
panic("Failed to get core resources");
+ of_node_put(np_pmu);
+ of_node_put(np_cgu);
+ of_node_put(np_ebu);
+
if (!request_mem_region(res_pmu.start, resource_size(&res_pmu),
res_pmu.name) ||
!request_mem_region(res_cgu.start, resource_size(&res_cgu),
