Re: [PATCH 5.15.y 2/4] phy: qcom-qmp-combo: fix memleak on probe deferral

From: Stephen Boyd
Date: Fri Jan 13 2023 - 14:53:56 EST


Quoting Johan Hovold (2023-01-12 23:57:39)
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 04:54:03PM -0800, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > From: Johan Hovold <johan+linaro@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > commit 2de8a325b1084330ae500380cc27edc39f488c30 upstream.
> >
> > Switch to using the device-managed of_iomap helper to avoid leaking
> > memory on probe deferral and driver unbind.
> >
> > Note that this helper checks for already reserved regions and may fail
> > if there are multiple devices claiming the same memory.
>
> This bit turned out to catch some buggy bindings and dts, so if you want
> to backport this one then the corresponding fixes for that would be
> needed as well.
>
> That includes
>
> a5d6b1ac56cb ("phy: qcom-qmp-usb: fix memleak on probe deferral")
>
> and some dts fixes which likely already have been backported.
>
> It may even be preferred to keep to just skip this patch and keep those
> small memory leaks on probe deferral to not risk any regressions in
> stable.

I only see qcom,sm8350-qmp-usb3-uni-phy in the stable tree and that
hasn't been changed since the node was introduced. I'll try to port the
exclusive logic from a5d6b1ac56cb into this patch. I don't think it's
preferable to keep the memory leak.