[PATCH] video: backlight: sky81452-backlight: Fix reference count imbalance on error

dinghao.liu at zju.edu.cn dinghao.liu at zju.edu.cn
Thu Aug 20 03:50:39 UTC 2020


> On Wed, 19 Aug 2020, Markus Elfring wrote:
> 
> > > When of_property_read_u32_array() returns an error code,
> > > a pairing refcount decrement is needed to keep np's refcount balanced.
> > 
> > Can another imperative wording be helpful for the change description?
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst?id=18445bf405cb331117bc98427b1ba6f12418ad17#n151
> > 
> > Would an other commit message be a bit nicer?
> > 
> > 
> > …
> > > +++ b/drivers/video/backlight/sky81452-backlight.c
> > > @@ -217,6 +217,7 @@ static struct sky81452_bl_platform_data *sky81452_bl_parse_dt(
> > >  					num_entry);
> > >  		if (ret < 0) {
> > >  			dev_err(dev, "led-sources node is invalid.\n");
> > > +			of_node_put(np);
> > >  			return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
> > >  		}
> > 
> > I propose to add the jump target “put_node” so that a bit of common exception
> > handling code can be better reused at the end of this function implementation.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Markus
> 
> You can safely ignore any review comments from Markus!
> 
> However, this patch doesn't appear to be in my inbox.
> 
> Any ideas as to why?
> 
> -- 
> Lee Jones [李琼斯]
> Senior Technical Lead - Developer Services
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Thank you for your advice. My outbox shows that this patch
has reached your email server successfully. Maybe this
ended up in your junk mail file?

Regards,
Dinghao


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