This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled soc: qcom: smem_state: Add refcounting for the 'state->of_node' to the 4.19-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: soc-qcom-smem_state-add-refcounting-for-the-state-of.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit f03c4a2863dfc38a5c8cc35d7697117d7fd7a691 Author: Liang He <windhl@xxxxxxx> Date: Thu Jul 21 21:52:17 2022 +0800 soc: qcom: smem_state: Add refcounting for the 'state->of_node' [ Upstream commit 90681f53b9381c23ff7762a3b13826d620c272de ] In qcom_smem_state_register() and qcom_smem_state_release(), we should better use of_node_get() and of_node_put() for the reference creation and destruction of 'device_node'. Fixes: 9460ae2ff308 ("soc: qcom: Introduce common SMEM state machine code") Signed-off-by: Liang He <windhl@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220721135217.1301039-2-windhl@xxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/soc/qcom/smem_state.c b/drivers/soc/qcom/smem_state.c index d5437ca76ed9..1502cf037a6b 100644 --- a/drivers/soc/qcom/smem_state.c +++ b/drivers/soc/qcom/smem_state.c @@ -144,6 +144,7 @@ static void qcom_smem_state_release(struct kref *ref) struct qcom_smem_state *state = container_of(ref, struct qcom_smem_state, refcount); list_del(&state->list); + of_node_put(state->of_node); kfree(state); } @@ -177,7 +178,7 @@ struct qcom_smem_state *qcom_smem_state_register(struct device_node *of_node, kref_init(&state->refcount); - state->of_node = of_node; + state->of_node = of_node_get(of_node); state->ops = *ops; state->priv = priv;