This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
staging: nvec: remove managed resource from PS2 driver
to my staging git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git
in the staging-linus branch.
The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree
(usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)
The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the
next -rc kernel release.
If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.
>From 68fae2f3df455f53d0dfe33483a49020b3b758f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marc Dietrich <marvin24@xxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2016 13:59:40 +0100
Subject: staging: nvec: remove managed resource from PS2 driver
This basicly reverts commit e534f3e9 (staging:nvec: Introduce the use of
the managed version of kzalloc). Serio struct should never by managed
because it is refcounted. Doing so will lead to a double free oops on module
remove.
Signed-off-by: Marc Dietrich <marvin24@xxxxxx>
Fixes: e534f3e9429f ("staging:nvec: Introduce the use of the managed version of kzalloc")
Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 3.15+
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/nvec/nvec_ps2.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/nvec/nvec_ps2.c b/drivers/staging/nvec/nvec_ps2.c
index 910e87b761e7..499952c8ef39 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/nvec/nvec_ps2.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/nvec/nvec_ps2.c
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ static int nvec_mouse_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
struct nvec_chip *nvec = dev_get_drvdata(pdev->dev.parent);
struct serio *ser_dev;
- ser_dev = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(struct serio), GFP_KERNEL);
+ ser_dev = kzalloc(sizeof(struct serio), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!ser_dev)
return -ENOMEM;
--
2.10.2
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