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Date:   Mon, 21 Sep 2020 21:08:12 -0400
From:   Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
To:     Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org>
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        Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
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        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] USB: misc: Add onboard_usb_hub driver
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On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 05:41:58PM -0700, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
> > > +	put_device(hub->dev);
> > 
> > Is there a matching get_device somewhere (like in _find_onboard_hub)?
> > If so, I didn't see it.  And I don't see any reason for it.
> 
> Yes, implicitly, of_find_device_by_node() "takes a reference to the
> embedded struct device which needs to be dropped after use."

Okay.  In that case it probably would be better to do the put_device()
right away, at the end of _find_onboard_hub().

There would be no danger of the platform device getting freed too soon 
if you make onboard_hub_remove unbind the associated USB hub devices.  
But there would still be a danger of those devices somehow getting 
rebound again at the wrong time; this suggests that you should add a 
flag to the onboard_hub structure saying that the platform device is 
about to go away.

Alan Stern