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mtd: core: Fix refcount error in del_mtd_device()

del_mtd_device() will call of_node_put() to mtd_get_of_node(mtd), which
is mtd->dev.of_node. However, memset(&mtd->dev, 0) is called before
of_node_put(). As the result, of_node_put() won't do anything in
del_mtd_device(), and causes the refcount leak.

del_mtd_device()
memset(&mtd->dev, 0, sizeof(mtd->dev) # clear mtd->dev
of_node_put()
mtd_get_of_node(mtd) # mtd->dev is cleared, can't locate of_node
# of_node_put(NULL) won't do anything

Fix the error by caching the pointer of the device_node.

OF: ERROR: memory leak, expected refcount 1 instead of 2,
of_node_get()/of_node_put() unbalanced - destroy cset entry: attach
overlay node /spi/spi-sram@0
CPU: 3 PID: 275 Comm: python3 Tainted: G N 6.1.0-rc3+ #54
0d8a1edddf51f172ff5226989a7565c6313b08e2
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS
rel-1.15.0-0-g2dd4b9b3f840-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x67/0x83
kobject_get+0x155/0x160
of_node_get+0x1f/0x30
of_fwnode_get+0x43/0x70
fwnode_handle_get+0x54/0x80
fwnode_get_nth_parent+0xc9/0xe0
fwnode_full_name_string+0x3f/0xa0
device_node_string+0x30f/0x750
pointer+0x598/0x7a0
vsnprintf+0x62d/0x9b0
...
cfs_overlay_release+0x30/0x90
config_item_release+0xbe/0x1a0
config_item_put+0x5e/0x80
configfs_rmdir+0x3bd/0x540
vfs_rmdir+0x18c/0x320
do_rmdir+0x198/0x330
__x64_sys_rmdir+0x2c/0x40
do_syscall_64+0x37/0x90
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

Fixes: 00596576a051 ("mtd: core: clear out unregistered devices a bit more")
Signed-off-by: Shang XiaoJing <shangxiaojing@huawei.com>
[<miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>: Light reword of the commit log]
Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mtd/20221119063915.11108-1-shangxiaojing@huawei.com

authored by

Shang XiaoJing and committed by
Miquel Raynal
56570bda 085679b1

+3 -1
+3 -1
drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
··· 780 780 { 781 781 int ret; 782 782 struct mtd_notifier *not; 783 + struct device_node *mtd_of_node; 783 784 784 785 mutex_lock(&mtd_table_mutex); 785 786 ··· 799 798 mtd->index, mtd->name, mtd->usecount); 800 799 ret = -EBUSY; 801 800 } else { 801 + mtd_of_node = mtd_get_of_node(mtd); 802 802 debugfs_remove_recursive(mtd->dbg.dfs_dir); 803 803 804 804 /* Try to remove the NVMEM provider */ ··· 811 809 memset(&mtd->dev, 0, sizeof(mtd->dev)); 812 810 813 811 idr_remove(&mtd_idr, mtd->index); 814 - of_node_put(mtd_get_of_node(mtd)); 812 + of_node_put(mtd_of_node); 815 813 816 814 module_put(THIS_MODULE); 817 815 ret = 0;