Merge branch 'acpi-utils'

* acpi-utils:
  ACPI: utils: Fix reference counting in for_each_acpi_dev_match()

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/utils.c b/drivers/acpi/utils.c
index e7ddd281afff..d5cedffeeff9 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/utils.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/utils.c
@@ -860,11 +860,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(acpi_dev_present);
  * Return the next match of ACPI device if another matching device was present
  * at the moment of invocation, or NULL otherwise.
  *
- * FIXME: The function does not tolerate the sudden disappearance of @adev, e.g.
- * in the case of a hotplug event. That said, the caller should ensure that
- * this will never happen.
- *
  * The caller is responsible for invoking acpi_dev_put() on the returned device.
+ * On the other hand the function invokes  acpi_dev_put() on the given @adev
+ * assuming that its reference counter had been increased beforehand.
  *
  * See additional information in acpi_dev_present() as well.
  */
@@ -880,6 +878,7 @@ acpi_dev_get_next_match_dev(struct acpi_device *adev, const char *hid, const cha
 	match.hrv = hrv;
 
 	dev = bus_find_device(&acpi_bus_type, start, &match, acpi_dev_match_cb);
+	acpi_dev_put(adev);
 	return dev ? to_acpi_device(dev) : NULL;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(acpi_dev_get_next_match_dev);