iio: trigger: Fix reference counting
authorLars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Sun, 24 Oct 2021 09:27:00 +0000 (11:27 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 14 Dec 2021 09:16:56 +0000 (10:16 +0100)
commit69357cb0b6b66d80a74d3686dbe81096cd3c88a9
treeb093c9f63ea5ebe815cf20aa57ef6f8a3ac6eb5a
parent876689907efdc53ae99557217e07c51f5f58338c
iio: trigger: Fix reference counting

commit a827a4984664308f13599a0b26c77018176d0c7c upstream.

In viio_trigger_alloc() device_initialize() is used to set the initial
reference count of the trigger to 1. Then another get_device() is called on
trigger. This sets the reference count to 2 before the trigger is returned.

iio_trigger_free(), which is the matching API to viio_trigger_alloc(),
calls put_device() which decreases the reference count by 1. But the second
reference count acquired in viio_trigger_alloc() is never dropped.

As a result the iio_trigger_release() function is never called and the
memory associated with the trigger is never freed.

Since there is no reason for the trigger to start its lifetime with two
reference counts just remove the extra get_device() in
viio_trigger_alloc().

Fixes: 5f9c035cae18 ("staging:iio:triggers. Add a reference get to the core for triggers.")
Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Acked-by: Nuno Sá <nuno.sa@analog.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211024092700.6844-2-lars@metafoo.de
Cc: <Stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/iio/industrialio-trigger.c