This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled PCI: Fix refcount issue in pci_create_root_bus() error recovery path to the 3.10-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: pci-fix-refcount-issue-in-pci_create_root_bus-error-recovery-path.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 343df771e671d821478dd3ef525a0610b808dbf8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jiang Liu <liuj97@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 01:10:08 +0800 Subject: PCI: Fix refcount issue in pci_create_root_bus() error recovery path From: Jiang Liu <liuj97@xxxxxxxxx> commit 343df771e671d821478dd3ef525a0610b808dbf8 upstream. After calling device_register(&bridge->dev), the bridge is reference- counted, and it is illegal to call kfree() on it except in the release function. [bhelgaas: changelog, use put_device() after device_register() failure] Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/pci/probe.c | 14 ++++++++------ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/pci/probe.c +++ b/drivers/pci/probe.c @@ -1703,12 +1703,16 @@ struct pci_bus *pci_create_root_bus(stru bridge->dev.release = pci_release_bus_bridge_dev; dev_set_name(&bridge->dev, "pci%04x:%02x", pci_domain_nr(b), bus); error = pcibios_root_bridge_prepare(bridge); - if (error) - goto bridge_dev_reg_err; + if (error) { + kfree(bridge); + goto err_out; + } error = device_register(&bridge->dev); - if (error) - goto bridge_dev_reg_err; + if (error) { + put_device(&bridge->dev); + goto err_out; + } b->bridge = get_device(&bridge->dev); device_enable_async_suspend(b->bridge); pci_set_bus_of_node(b); @@ -1764,8 +1768,6 @@ struct pci_bus *pci_create_root_bus(stru class_dev_reg_err: put_device(&bridge->dev); device_unregister(&bridge->dev); -bridge_dev_reg_err: - kfree(bridge); err_out: kfree(b); return NULL; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from liuj97@xxxxxxxxx are queue-3.10/pci-fix-refcount-issue-in-pci_create_root_bus-error-recovery-path.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