This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled powerpc/83xx/mpc832x_rdb: call platform_device_put() in error case in of_fsl_spi_probe() to the 4.9-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: powerpc-83xx-mpc832x_rdb-call-platform_device_put-in.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 3e50aa39615483eb86088908b287ee772361c27f Author: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat Oct 29 19:16:26 2022 +0800 powerpc/83xx/mpc832x_rdb: call platform_device_put() in error case in of_fsl_spi_probe() [ Upstream commit 4d0eea415216fe3791da2f65eb41399e70c7bedf ] If platform_device_add() is not called or failed, it can not call platform_device_del() to clean up memory, it should call platform_device_put() in error case. Fixes: 26f6cb999366 ("[POWERPC] fsl_soc: add support for fsl_spi") Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221029111626.429971-1-yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/83xx/mpc832x_rdb.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/83xx/mpc832x_rdb.c index d7c9b186954d..3e5e51de9a0d 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/83xx/mpc832x_rdb.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/83xx/mpc832x_rdb.c @@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ static int __init of_fsl_spi_probe(char *type, char *compatible, u32 sysclk, goto next; unreg: - platform_device_del(pdev); + platform_device_put(pdev); err: pr_err("%s: registration failed\n", np->full_name); next: