This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled tpm: fix the cleanup of struct tpm_chip to the 4.5-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: tpm-fix-the-cleanup-of-struct-tpm_chip.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.5 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 8e0ee3c9faed7ca68807ea45141775856c438ac0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 22:31:08 +0200 Subject: tpm: fix the cleanup of struct tpm_chip From: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 8e0ee3c9faed7ca68807ea45141775856c438ac0 upstream. If the initialization fails before tpm_chip_register(), put_device() will be not called, which causes release callback not to be called. This patch fixes the issue by adding put_device() to devres list of the parent device. Fixes: 313d21eeab ("tpm: device class for tpm") Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/char/tpm/tpm-chip.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-chip.c +++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-chip.c @@ -136,6 +136,8 @@ struct tpm_chip *tpmm_chip_alloc(struct chip->cdev.owner = chip->pdev->driver->owner; chip->cdev.kobj.parent = &chip->dev.kobj; + devm_add_action(dev, (void (*)(void *)) put_device, &chip->dev); + return chip; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tpmm_chip_alloc); @@ -171,7 +173,7 @@ static int tpm_add_char_device(struct tp static void tpm_del_char_device(struct tpm_chip *chip) { cdev_del(&chip->cdev); - device_unregister(&chip->dev); + device_del(&chip->dev); } static int tpm1_chip_register(struct tpm_chip *chip) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jarkko.sakkinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.5/tpm_crb-tpm2_shutdown-must-be-called-before-tpm_chip_unregister.patch queue-4.5/tpm-fix-the-cleanup-of-struct-tpm_chip.patch queue-4.5/tpm-fix-the-rollback-in-tpm_chip_register.patch queue-4.5/tpm_eventlog.c-fix-binary_bios_measurements.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