This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled uwb: fix device reference leaks to the 4.4-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: uwb-fix-device-reference-leaks.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From d6124b409ca33c100170ffde51cd8dff761454a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2016 12:13:31 +0100 Subject: uwb: fix device reference leaks From: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> commit d6124b409ca33c100170ffde51cd8dff761454a1 upstream. This subsystem consistently fails to drop the device reference taken by class_find_device(). Note that some of these lookup functions already take a reference to the returned data, while others claim no reference is needed (or does not seem need one). Fixes: 183b9b592a62 ("uwb: add the UWB stack (core files)") Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/uwb/lc-rc.c | 16 +++++++++++++--- drivers/uwb/pal.c | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/uwb/lc-rc.c +++ b/drivers/uwb/lc-rc.c @@ -56,8 +56,11 @@ static struct uwb_rc *uwb_rc_find_by_ind struct uwb_rc *rc = NULL; dev = class_find_device(&uwb_rc_class, NULL, &index, uwb_rc_index_match); - if (dev) + if (dev) { rc = dev_get_drvdata(dev); + put_device(dev); + } + return rc; } @@ -467,7 +470,9 @@ struct uwb_rc *__uwb_rc_try_get(struct u if (dev) { rc = dev_get_drvdata(dev); __uwb_rc_get(rc); + put_device(dev); } + return rc; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__uwb_rc_try_get); @@ -520,8 +525,11 @@ struct uwb_rc *uwb_rc_get_by_grandpa(con dev = class_find_device(&uwb_rc_class, NULL, grandpa_dev, find_rc_grandpa); - if (dev) + if (dev) { rc = dev_get_drvdata(dev); + put_device(dev); + } + return rc; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(uwb_rc_get_by_grandpa); @@ -553,8 +561,10 @@ struct uwb_rc *uwb_rc_get_by_dev(const s struct uwb_rc *rc = NULL; dev = class_find_device(&uwb_rc_class, NULL, addr, find_rc_dev); - if (dev) + if (dev) { rc = dev_get_drvdata(dev); + put_device(dev); + } return rc; } --- a/drivers/uwb/pal.c +++ b/drivers/uwb/pal.c @@ -97,6 +97,8 @@ static bool uwb_rc_class_device_exists(s dev = class_find_device(&uwb_rc_class, NULL, target_rc, find_rc); + put_device(dev); + return (dev != NULL); } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from johan@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/mfd-core-fix-device-reference-leak-in-mfd_clone_cell.patch queue-4.4/pm-sleep-fix-device-reference-leak-in-test_suspend.patch queue-4.4/uwb-fix-device-reference-leaks.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