power_supply: Add power_supply_put for decrementing device reference counter

The power_supply_get_by_phandle() and power_supply_get_by_name() use
function class_find_device() for obtaining the reference to power
supply. Each use of class_find_device() increases the power supply's
device reference counter.

However the reference counter was not decreased by users of this API.
Thus final device_unregister() call from power_supply_unregister() could
not release the device and clean up its resources. This lead to memory
leak if at least once power_supply_get_by_*() was called between
registering and unregistering the power supply.

Add and document new API power_supply_put() for decrementing the
reference counter.

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Reviewed-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/power_supply.h b/include/linux/power_supply.h
index ea15eb68f609..75a1dd8dc56e 100644
--- a/include/linux/power_supply.h
+++ b/include/linux/power_supply.h
@@ -282,6 +282,7 @@ extern struct atomic_notifier_head power_supply_notifier;
 extern int power_supply_reg_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb);
 extern void power_supply_unreg_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb);
 extern struct power_supply *power_supply_get_by_name(const char *name);
+extern void power_supply_put(struct power_supply *psy);
 #ifdef CONFIG_OF
 extern struct power_supply *power_supply_get_by_phandle(struct device_node *np,
                                                         const char *property);