This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ptp: do not explicitly set drvdata in ptp_clock_register() to the 4.4-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: ptp-do-not-explicitly-set-drvdata-in-ptp_clock_register.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Wed 13 May 2020 08:37:35 AM CEST From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 10:23:31 -0800 Subject: ptp: do not explicitly set drvdata in ptp_clock_register() From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> commit 882f312dc0751c973db26478f07f082c584d16aa upstream. We do not need explicitly call dev_set_drvdata(), as it is done for us by device_create(). Acked-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/ptp/ptp_clock.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/ptp/ptp_clock.c +++ b/drivers/ptp/ptp_clock.c @@ -220,8 +220,6 @@ struct ptp_clock *ptp_clock_register(str if (IS_ERR(ptp->dev)) goto no_device; - dev_set_drvdata(ptp->dev, ptp); - err = ptp_populate_sysfs(ptp); if (err) goto no_sysfs; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/ptp-do-not-explicitly-set-drvdata-in-ptp_clock_register.patch queue-4.4/ptp-use-is_visible-method-to-hide-unused-attributes.patch queue-4.4/ptp-create-pins-together-with-the-rest-of-attributes.patch