Re: [PATCH] of/irq: Fix device_node refcount in of_irq_parse_raw()

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Sun Dec 29 2013 - 21:37:54 EST


On Tue, 2013-12-17 at 18:32 +0100, CÃdric Le Goater wrote:
> Commit 2361613206e6, "of/irq: Refactor interrupt-map parsing" changed
> the refcount on the device_node causing an error in of_node_put():

Grant, Thierry, this is a regression, please send to Linus ASAP...

Cheers,
Ben.

> ERROR: Bad of_node_put() on /pci@800000020000000
> CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.13.0-rc3-dirty #2
> Call Trace:
> [c00000003e403500] [c0000000000144fc] .show_stack+0x7c/0x1f0 (unreliable)
> [c00000003e4035d0] [c00000000070f250] .dump_stack+0x88/0xb4
> [c00000003e403650] [c0000000005e8768] .of_node_release+0xd8/0xf0
> [c00000003e4036e0] [c0000000005eeafc] .of_irq_parse_one+0x10c/0x280
> [c00000003e4037a0] [c0000000005efd4c] .of_irq_parse_pci+0x3c/0x1d0
> [c00000003e403840] [c000000000038240] .pcibios_setup_device+0xa0/0x2e0
> [c00000003e403910] [c0000000000398f0] .pcibios_setup_bus_devices+0x60/0xd0
> [c00000003e403990] [c00000000003b3a4] .__of_scan_bus+0x1a4/0x2b0
> [c00000003e403a80] [c00000000003a62c] .pcibios_scan_phb+0x30c/0x410
> [c00000003e403b60] [c0000000009fe430] .pcibios_init+0x7c/0xd4
>
> This patch adjusts the refcount in the walk of the interrupt tree.
> When a match is found, there is no need to increase the refcount
> on 'out_irq->np' as 'newpar' is already holding a ref. The refcount
> balance between 'ipar' and 'newpar' is maintained in the skiplevel:
> goto label.
>
> This patch also removes the usage of the device_node variable 'old'
> which seems useless after the latest changes.
>
> Signed-off-by: CÃdric Le Goater <clg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> This patch was tested on powerpc, pseries and powernv. This is a
> new area for me so I might have missed a path. Please take a look.
>
> We could now introduce an helper routine to look for #address-cells in
> of_irq_parse_raw(). This can be the subject of another patch.
>
> Thanks,
>
> C.
>
> drivers/of/irq.c | 5 +----
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/of/irq.c b/drivers/of/irq.c
> index 786b0b47fae4..27212402c532 100644
> --- a/drivers/of/irq.c
> +++ b/drivers/of/irq.c
> @@ -165,7 +165,6 @@ int of_irq_parse_raw(const __be32 *addr, struct of_phandle_args *out_irq)
> if (of_get_property(ipar, "interrupt-controller", NULL) !=
> NULL) {
> pr_debug(" -> got it !\n");
> - of_node_put(old);
> return 0;
> }
>
> @@ -250,8 +249,7 @@ int of_irq_parse_raw(const __be32 *addr, struct of_phandle_args *out_irq)
> * Successfully parsed an interrrupt-map translation; copy new
> * interrupt specifier into the out_irq structure
> */
> - of_node_put(out_irq->np);
> - out_irq->np = of_node_get(newpar);
> + out_irq->np = newpar;
>
> match_array = imap - newaddrsize - newintsize;
> for (i = 0; i < newintsize; i++)
> @@ -268,7 +266,6 @@ int of_irq_parse_raw(const __be32 *addr, struct of_phandle_args *out_irq)
> }
> fail:
> of_node_put(ipar);
> - of_node_put(out_irq->np);
> of_node_put(newpar);
>
> return -EINVAL;


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