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drm: sti: fix device leaks at component probe
authorJohan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Mon, 22 Sep 2025 12:20:12 +0000 (14:20 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 6 Dec 2025 21:25:01 +0000 (06:25 +0900)
commit9cb4deb88350b985dd541324968da2a517c763de
tree89d856e1558564f3c960c8911eb1d7ad06caae3b
parentd24483349b012510d1c9d15cfa15c00ca20ae799
drm: sti: fix device leaks at component probe

commit 620a8f131154250f6a64a07d049a4f235d6451a5 upstream.

Make sure to drop the references taken to the vtg devices by
of_find_device_by_node() when looking up their driver data during
component probe.

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

Fixes: cc6b741c6f63 ("drm: sti: remove useless fields from vtg structure")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.16
Cc: Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250922122012.27407-1-johan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Raphael Gallais-Pou <raphael.gallais-pou@foss.st.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/gpu/drm/sti/sti_vtg.c