The call to of_find_node_by_name returns a node pointer with refcount incremented thus it must be explicitly decremented after the last usage.
Detected by coccinelle with the following warnings: ./drivers/pci/hotplug/rpadlpar_core.c:55:1-7: ERROR: missing of_node_put; acquired a node pointer with refcount incremented on line 42, but without a corresponding object release within this function Signed-off-by: Wen Yang <wen.yan...@zte.com.cn> Cc: Tyrel Datwyler <tyr...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <b...@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <pau...@samba.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelg...@google.com> Cc: linux-...@vger.kernel.org Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org --- drivers/pci/hotplug/rpadlpar_core.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/pci/hotplug/rpadlpar_core.c b/drivers/pci/hotplug/rpadlpar_core.c index e2356a9..f3f42ff 100644 --- a/drivers/pci/hotplug/rpadlpar_core.c +++ b/drivers/pci/hotplug/rpadlpar_core.c @@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ static struct device_node *find_vio_slot_node(char *drc_name) break; } + of_node_put(parent); return dn; } -- 2.9.5