This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mtd: rawnand: atmel: fix possible object reference leak to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: mtd-rawnand-atmel-fix-possible-object-reference-leak.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From a12085d13997ed15f745f33a0e01002541160179 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wen Yang <yellowriver2010@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2019 03:50:55 +0000 Subject: mtd: rawnand: atmel: fix possible object reference leak From: Wen Yang <yellowriver2010@xxxxxxxxxxx> commit a12085d13997ed15f745f33a0e01002541160179 upstream. of_find_device_by_node() takes a reference to the struct device when it finds a match via get_device, there is no need to call get_device() twice. We also should make sure to drop the reference to the device taken by of_find_device_by_node() on driver unbind. Fixes: f88fc122cc34 ("mtd: nand: Cleanup/rework the atmel_nand driver") Signed-off-by: Wen Yang <yellowriver2010@xxxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Boris Brezillon <bbrezillon@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Boris Brezillon <bbrezillon@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@xxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Boris Brezillon <bbrezillon@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ludovic Desroches <ludovic.desroches@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-mtd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/mtd/nand/atmel/pmecc.c | 21 +++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/atmel/pmecc.c +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/atmel/pmecc.c @@ -875,23 +875,32 @@ static struct atmel_pmecc *atmel_pmecc_g { struct platform_device *pdev; struct atmel_pmecc *pmecc, **ptr; + int ret; pdev = of_find_device_by_node(np); - if (!pdev || !platform_get_drvdata(pdev)) + if (!pdev) return ERR_PTR(-EPROBE_DEFER); + pmecc = platform_get_drvdata(pdev); + if (!pmecc) { + ret = -EPROBE_DEFER; + goto err_put_device; + } ptr = devres_alloc(devm_atmel_pmecc_put, sizeof(*ptr), GFP_KERNEL); - if (!ptr) - return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); - - get_device(&pdev->dev); - pmecc = platform_get_drvdata(pdev); + if (!ptr) { + ret = -ENOMEM; + goto err_put_device; + } *ptr = pmecc; devres_add(userdev, ptr); return pmecc; + +err_put_device: + put_device(&pdev->dev); + return ERR_PTR(ret); } static const int atmel_pmecc_strengths[] = { 2, 4, 8, 12, 24, 32 }; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from yellowriver2010@xxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.14/mtd-rawnand-atmel-fix-possible-object-reference-leak.patch ______________________________________________________ Linux MTD discussion mailing list http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-mtd/