From: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know. =============== commit 0e1614ac84f1719d87bed577963bb8140d0c9ce8 upstream. Make sure to drop the reference to the parent device taken by class_find_device() after "unexporting" any children when deregistering a PWM chip. Fixes: 0733424c9ba9 ("pwm: Unexport children before chip removal") Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/pwm/sysfs.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/pwm/sysfs.c b/drivers/pwm/sysfs.c index 809b5ab9074c..60d74a666c62 100644 --- a/drivers/pwm/sysfs.c +++ b/drivers/pwm/sysfs.c @@ -364,6 +364,8 @@ void pwmchip_sysfs_unexport_children(struct pwm_chip *chip) if (test_bit(PWMF_EXPORTED, &pwm->flags)) pwm_unexport_child(parent, pwm); } + + put_device(parent); } static int __init pwm_sysfs_init(void) -- 2.11.0 -- 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