During stepping down the tree, parent node is gotten first and its refcount is increased with of_node_get() in __of_get_next_child(). Since it just being used as tmp node, its refcount must be decreased with of_node_put() after traversing its child nodes. Or, its refcount will never be descreased to ZERO, then it will never be freed, as well as other related memory blocks. To fix this, decrease refcount of parent with of_node_put() after __of_find_node_by_path(). Signed-off-by: Qi Hou <qi.hou@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Peter Rosin <peda@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/of/base.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/of/base.c b/drivers/of/base.c index d4bea3c..ce8206f 100644 --- a/drivers/of/base.c +++ b/drivers/of/base.c @@ -842,8 +842,11 @@ struct device_node *of_find_node_opts_by_path(const char *path, const char **opt if (!np) np = of_node_get(of_root); while (np && *path == '/') { + struct device_node *tmp = np; + path++; /* Increment past '/' delimiter */ np = __of_find_node_by_path(np, path); + of_node_put(tmp); path = strchrnul(path, '/'); if (separator && separator < path) break; -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html