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Date:   Thu, 22 Dec 2022 22:30:47 +0200
From:   Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
To:     Umang Jain <umang.jain@ideasonboard.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] staging: vc04_services: Stop leaking platform
 device on error path
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Hi Umang,

Thank you for the patch.

On Fri, Dec 23, 2022 at 12:44:57AM +0530, Umang Jain wrote:
> vchiq driver registers the child platform devices in
> vchiq_register_child(). However, in the registration error code path,
> currently the driver is leaking platform devices by not destroying the
> return platform device. Plug this leak using platform_device_put() as
> mentioned in the documentation for platform_device_register().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Umang Jain <umang.jain@ideasonboard.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c
> index dc33490ba7fb..fc7ea7ba97b2 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c
> @@ -1779,6 +1779,7 @@ vchiq_register_child(struct platform_device *pdev, const char *name)
>  	child = platform_device_register_full(&pdevinfo);
>  	if (IS_ERR(child)) {
>  		dev_warn(&pdev->dev, "%s not registered\n", name);
> +		platform_device_put(child);

If IS_ERR(child), what do you expect platform_device_put(child) to do ?
And have you read the implementation of platform_device_register_full()
?

>  		child = NULL;
>  	}
>  

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart