This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
MIPS: SGI-IP27: Free some unused memory
to the 5.15-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:
mips-sgi-ip27-free-some-unused-memory.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 0e71ab91e36a8ba59f3012fb385c5d1d484cbb36
Author: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat Apr 23 15:24:03 2022 +0200
MIPS: SGI-IP27: Free some unused memory
[ Upstream commit 33d7085682b4aa212ebfadbc21da81dfefaaac16 ]
platform_device_add_data() duplicates the memory it is passed. So we can
free some memory to save a few bytes that would remain unused otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Stable-dep-of: 11bec9cba4de ("MIPS: SGI-IP27: Fix platform-device leak in bridge_platform_create()")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/arch/mips/sgi-ip27/ip27-xtalk.c b/arch/mips/sgi-ip27/ip27-xtalk.c
index 000ede156bdc..e762886d1dda 100644
--- a/arch/mips/sgi-ip27/ip27-xtalk.c
+++ b/arch/mips/sgi-ip27/ip27-xtalk.c
@@ -53,6 +53,8 @@ static void bridge_platform_create(nasid_t nasid, int widget, int masterwid)
}
platform_device_add_resources(pdev, &w1_res, 1);
platform_device_add_data(pdev, wd, sizeof(*wd));
+ /* platform_device_add_data() duplicates the data */
+ kfree(wd);
platform_device_add(pdev);
bd = kzalloc(sizeof(*bd), GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -83,6 +85,8 @@ static void bridge_platform_create(nasid_t nasid, int widget, int masterwid)
bd->io_offset = offset;
platform_device_add_data(pdev, bd, sizeof(*bd));
+ /* platform_device_add_data() duplicates the data */
+ kfree(bd);
platform_device_add(pdev);
pr_info("xtalk:n%d/%x bridge widget\n", nasid, widget);
return;
