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soc: apple: mailbox: fix device leak on lookup
authorJohan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Fri, 26 Sep 2025 14:31:31 +0000 (16:31 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 2 Jan 2026 11:57:29 +0000 (12:57 +0100)
commit25073a05068e681fb61004fab88979d8865ef36d
treebed9dcf48b3774e7154c564ef4d8d83648dea9ee
parentb28fd17adfb2131a7194a917453ed347702251b1
soc: apple: mailbox: fix device leak on lookup

commit f401671e90ccc26b3022f177c4156a429c024f6c upstream.

Make sure to drop the reference taken to the mbox platform device when
looking up its driver data.

Note that holding a reference to a device does not prevent its driver
data from going away so there is no point in keeping the reference.

Fixes: 6e1457fcad3f ("soc: apple: mailbox: Add ASC/M3 mailbox driver")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.8
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Neal Gompa <neal@gompa.dev>
Signed-off-by: Sven Peter <sven@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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