This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled amba: bus: fix refcount leak to the 4.19-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: amba-bus-fix-refcount-leak.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit d8c40eb6014fa59d6531e06aae14b8175b47d4dd Author: Peng Fan <peng.fan@xxxxxxx> Date: Mon Aug 21 10:39:27 2023 +0800 amba: bus: fix refcount leak [ Upstream commit e312cbdc11305568554a9e18a2ea5c2492c183f3 ] commit 5de1540b7bc4 ("drivers/amba: create devices from device tree") increases the refcount of of_node, but not releases it in amba_device_release, so there is refcount leak. By using of_node_put to avoid refcount leak. Fixes: 5de1540b7bc4 ("drivers/amba: create devices from device tree") Signed-off-by: Peng Fan <peng.fan@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230821023928.3324283-1-peng.fan@xxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/amba/bus.c b/drivers/amba/bus.c index e1992f361c9a6..2aaec96f83849 100644 --- a/drivers/amba/bus.c +++ b/drivers/amba/bus.c @@ -349,6 +349,7 @@ static void amba_device_release(struct device *dev) { struct amba_device *d = to_amba_device(dev); + of_node_put(d->dev.of_node); if (d->res.parent) release_resource(&d->res); kfree(d);