Re: [PATCH 5.15 565/779] ASoC: mt6797-mt6351: Fix refcount leak in mt6797_mt6351_dev_probe

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Fri Aug 19 2022 - 09:14:32 EST


Hi!

> From: Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> [ Upstream commit 7472eb8d7dd12b6b9b1a4f4527719cc9c7f5965f ]
>
> of_parse_phandle() returns a node pointer with refcount
> incremented, we should use of_node_put() on it when not need anymore.
> Add missing of_node_put() to avoid refcount leak.

AFAICT this has serious problems:

> +++ b/sound/soc/mediatek/mt6797/mt6797-mt6351.c
> @@ -217,7 +217,8 @@ static int mt6797_mt6351_dev_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> if (!codec_node) {
> dev_err(&pdev->dev,
> "Property 'audio-codec' missing or invalid\n");
> - return -EINVAL;
> + ret = -EINVAL;
> + goto put_platform_node;
> }
> for_each_card_prelinks(card, i, dai_link) {
> if (dai_link->codecs->name)
> @@ -230,6 +231,9 @@ static int mt6797_mt6351_dev_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> dev_err(&pdev->dev, "%s snd_soc_register_card fail %d\n",
> __func__, ret);
>
> + of_node_put(codec_node);
> +put_platform_node:
> + of_node_put(platform_node);
> return ret;
> }

platform_node is stashed away in struct, and so is codec_node; we
should not be freeing those references in success case, right?

dai_link->platforms->of_node = platform_node;

Best regards,
Pavel
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