This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled fbdev: vermilion: decrease reference count in error path 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: fbdev-vermilion-decrease-reference-count-in-error-pa.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 42b4dd9f13812898d300c31b012a0e7a5b15044c Author: Xiongfeng Wang <wangxiongfeng2@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Nov 14 16:56:54 2022 +0800 fbdev: vermilion: decrease reference count in error path [ Upstream commit 001f2cdb952a9566c77fb4b5470cc361db5601bb ] pci_get_device() will increase the reference count for the returned pci_dev. For the error path, we need to use pci_dev_put() to decrease the reference count. Fixes: dbe7e429fedb ("vmlfb: framebuffer driver for Intel Vermilion Range") Signed-off-by: Xiongfeng Wang <wangxiongfeng2@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/vermilion/vermilion.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/vermilion/vermilion.c index ff61605b8764..a543643ce014 100644 --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/vermilion/vermilion.c +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/vermilion/vermilion.c @@ -277,8 +277,10 @@ static int vmlfb_get_gpu(struct vml_par *par) mutex_unlock(&vml_mutex); - if (pci_enable_device(par->gpu) < 0) + if (pci_enable_device(par->gpu) < 0) { + pci_dev_put(par->gpu); return -ENODEV; + } return 0; }