From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2025 13:23:57 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: software node: increase the reference of the swnode by its fwnode
X-Git-Tag: v6.19-rc1~97^2~7^2~7
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0651933c117e778e6f71183a52a57f4216c56efb;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Flinux.git

software node: increase the reference of the swnode by its fwnode

Once we allow software nodes to reference other kinds of firmware nodes,
the node in args will no longer necessarily be a software node so bump
its reference count using its fwnode interface.

Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Charles Keepax <ckeepax@opensource.cirrus.com>
Tested-by: Charles Keepax <ckeepax@opensource.cirrus.com>
Signed-off-by: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>
---

diff --git a/drivers/base/swnode.c b/drivers/base/swnode.c
index 016a6fd12864f..6b1ee75a908fb 100644
--- a/drivers/base/swnode.c
+++ b/drivers/base/swnode.c
@@ -553,7 +553,7 @@ software_node_get_reference_args(const struct fwnode_handle *fwnode,
 	if (!args)
 		return 0;
 
-	args->fwnode = software_node_get(refnode);
+	args->fwnode = fwnode_handle_get(refnode);
 	args->nargs = nargs;
 
 	for (i = 0; i < nargs; i++)