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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2015 10:26:02 -0700
From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
To: Rob Herring <robherring2@gmail.com>
Cc: Belisko Marek <marek.belisko@gmail.com>,
        "linux-input@vger.kernel.org" <linux-input@vger.kernel.org>,
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        Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
        Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] input: twl4030-vibra: Fix ERROR: Bad of_node_put()
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On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 10:13:54PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Belisko Marek <marek.belisko@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Dmitry,
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 10:53 PM, Dmitry Torokhov
> > <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 10:38:34PM +0200, Marek Belisko wrote:
> >>> Fix following:
> >>> [    8.862274] ERROR: Bad of_node_put() on /ocp/i2c@48070000/twl@48/audio
> >>> [    8.869293] CPU: 0 PID: 1003 Comm: modprobe Not tainted 4.2.0-rc2-letux+ #1175
> >>> [    8.876922] Hardware name: Generic OMAP36xx (Flattened Device Tree)
> >>> [    8.883514] [<c00159e0>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c0012488>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14)
> >>> [    8.891693] [<c0012488>] (show_stack) from [<c05cb810>] (dump_stack+0x78/0x94)
> >>> [    8.899322] [<c05cb810>] (dump_stack) from [<c02cfd5c>] (kobject_release+0x68/0x7c)
> >>> [    8.907409] [<c02cfd5c>] (kobject_release) from [<bf0040c4>] (twl4030_vibra_probe+0x74/0x188 [twl4030_vibra])
> >>> [    8.917877] [<bf0040c4>] (twl4030_vibra_probe [twl4030_vibra]) from [<c03816ac>] (platform_drv_probe+0x48/0x90)
> >>> [    8.928497] [<c03816ac>] (platform_drv_probe) from [<c037feb4>] (really_probe+0xd4/0x238)
> >>> [    8.937103] [<c037feb4>] (really_probe) from [<c0380160>] (driver_probe_device+0x30/0x48)
> >>> [    8.945678] [<c0380160>] (driver_probe_device) from [<c03801e0>] (__driver_attach+0x68/0x8c)
> >>> [    8.954589] [<c03801e0>] (__driver_attach) from [<c037ea60>] (bus_for_each_dev+0x50/0x84)
> >>> [    8.963226] [<c037ea60>] (bus_for_each_dev) from [<c037f828>] (bus_add_driver+0xcc/0x1e4)
> >>> [    8.971832] [<c037f828>] (bus_add_driver) from [<c0380b60>] (driver_register+0x9c/0xe0)
> >>> [    8.980255] [<c0380b60>] (driver_register) from [<c00097e0>] (do_one_initcall+0x100/0x1b8)
> >>> [    8.988983] [<c00097e0>] (do_one_initcall) from [<c00b8008>] (do_init_module+0x58/0x1c0)
> >>> [    8.997497] [<c00b8008>] (do_init_module) from [<c00b8cac>] (SyS_init_module+0x54/0x64)
> >>> [    9.005950] [<c00b8cac>] (SyS_init_module) from [<c000ed20>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x54)
> >>> [    9.015838] input: twl4030:vibrator as /devices/platform/68000000.ocp/48070000.i2c/i2c-0/0-0048/48070000.i2c:twl@48:audio/input/input2
> >>>
> >>> node passed to of_find_node_by_name is put inside that function and new node
> >>> is returned if found. Free returned node not already freed node.
> >>
> >> Hmm, if of_find_node_by_name() "puts" passed in node should we not "get"
> >> it before calling of_find_node_by_name()? The node pointer in question
> >> is simply copied from parent device.
> > I'm not sure. what I can say is that I cannot see such error in 4.1
> > but only in 4.2-rcx.
> > Adding Grant and Rob to CC, maybe they know what should be done and
> > why I see such error in 4.2-rcx.
> 
> The problem was that node passed into of_find_node_by_name is the the
> starting point to search, but you should be doing the put on the
> returned node. So the patch below is correct.
> 
> As far as why in 4.2, it seems you have OF_DYNAMIC enabled in your
> config either because you have DT unit test or overlays enabled.
> Overlays are now user enable-able in 4.2.

Right, but the question was whether we should also "get" the node that
we are passing into of_find_node_by_name(), or, maybe better, stop
of_find_node_by_name() from "putting" the node that is passed in? It is
really surprising behavior.

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry
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