From: Zijun Hu <quic_zijuhu@xxxxxxxxxxx> For macro for_each_child_of_node(parent, child), refcount of @child has been increased before entering its loop body, so normally needs to call of_node_put(@child) before returning from the loop body to avoid refcount leakage. of_phy_provider_lookup() has such usage but does not call of_node_put() before returning, so cause leakage of the OF node refcount. Fix by simply calling of_node_put() before returning from the loop body. The APIs affected by this issue are shown below since they indirectly invoke problematic of_phy_provider_lookup(). phy_get() of_phy_get() devm_phy_get() devm_of_phy_get() devm_of_phy_get_by_index() Fixes: 2a4c37016ca9 ("phy: core: Fix of_phy_provider_lookup to return PHY provider for sub node") Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reviewed-by: Johan Hovold <johan+linaro@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Zijun Hu <quic_zijuhu@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- The following kernel mainline commit fixes a similar issue: Commit: b337cc3ce475 ("backlight: lm3509_bl: Fix early returns in for_each_child_of_node()") --- drivers/phy/phy-core.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/phy/phy-core.c b/drivers/phy/phy-core.c index b88fbda6c046174b7abd0a0435ec54763e9f42bc..413f76e2d1744dd8ffb63a6c3a093f5c6cbead7b 100644 --- a/drivers/phy/phy-core.c +++ b/drivers/phy/phy-core.c @@ -145,8 +145,10 @@ static struct phy_provider *of_phy_provider_lookup(struct device_node *node) return phy_provider; for_each_child_of_node(phy_provider->children, child) - if (child == node) + if (child == node) { + of_node_put(child); return phy_provider; + } } return ERR_PTR(-EPROBE_DEFER); -- 2.34.1