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drm/tegra: fix device leak on probe()

PATCH In review Johan Hovold 1 participant 2 messages Nov 21, 2025 – Nov 24, 2025

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PATCH 1/1 drm/tegra: fix device leak on probe()

Make sure to drop the reference taken when looking up the companion device during probe().

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 f68ba6912bd2 ("drm/tegra: dc: Link DC1 to DC0 on Tegra20")
Cc Dmitry Osipenko <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/dc.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/dc.c +2 -0
index 59d5c1ba145a..7a6b30df6a89 100644
@@ -3148,6 +3148,8 @@ static int tegra_dc_couple(struct tegra_dc *dc)
 		dc->client.parent = &parent->client;
 
 		dev_dbg(dc->dev, "coupled to %s\n", dev_name(companion));
+
+		put_device(companion);
 	}
 
 	return 0;
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Quoted 19 lines · Johan Hovold

Make sure to drop the reference taken when looking up the companion device during probe().

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 f68ba6912bd2 ("drm/tegra: dc: Link DC1 to DC0 on Tegra20")
Cc Dmitry Osipenko <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/dc.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/dc.c +0 -0
index 59d5c1ba145a..7a6b30df6a89 100644

drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/dc.c static int tegra_dc_couple(struct tegra_dc *dc) · line 3152

Quoted 5 lines
drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/dc.c +2 -0
@@ -3148,6 +3148,8 @@ static int tegra_dc_couple(struct tegra_dc *dc)
 		dc->client.parent = &parent->client;
 
 		dev_dbg(dc->dev, "coupled to %s\n", dev_name(companion));
+
+		put_device(companion);

I noticed that this has been fixed in rc7 when rebasing so please disregard this one.

Johan