This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled spi: fix parent-device reference leak to the 3.14-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: spi-fix-parent-device-reference-leak.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 157f38f993919b648187ba341bfb05d0e91ad2f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 16:16:19 +0100 Subject: spi: fix parent-device reference leak From: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 157f38f993919b648187ba341bfb05d0e91ad2f6 upstream. Fix parent-device reference leak due to SPI-core taking an unnecessary reference to the parent when allocating the master structure, a reference that was never released. Note that driver core takes its own reference to the parent when the master device is registered. Fixes: 49dce689ad4e ("spi doesn't need class_device") Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/spi/spi.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/spi/spi.c +++ b/drivers/spi/spi.c @@ -1268,7 +1268,7 @@ struct spi_master *spi_alloc_master(stru master->bus_num = -1; master->num_chipselect = 1; master->dev.class = &spi_master_class; - master->dev.parent = get_device(dev); + master->dev.parent = dev; spi_master_set_devdata(master, &master[1]); return master; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from johan@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.14/spi-fix-parent-device-reference-leak.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html