This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled bus: arm-ccn: Prevent hotplug callback leak to the 4.9-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: bus-arm-ccn-prevent-hotplug-callback-leak.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 26242b330093fd14c2e94fb6cbdf0f482ab26576 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2016 11:14:06 +0100 Subject: bus: arm-ccn: Prevent hotplug callback leak From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 26242b330093fd14c2e94fb6cbdf0f482ab26576 upstream. In case the driver registration fails, the hotplug callback is leaked. Not fatal, because it's never invoked as there are no instances registered, but wrong nevertheless. Fixes: fdc15a36d84e ("bus/arm-ccn: Convert to hotplug statemachine") Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> Cc: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@xxxxxxx> Cc: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/bus/arm-ccn.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/bus/arm-ccn.c +++ b/drivers/bus/arm-ccn.c @@ -1570,7 +1570,10 @@ static int __init arm_ccn_init(void) for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(arm_ccn_pmu_events); i++) arm_ccn_pmu_events_attrs[i] = &arm_ccn_pmu_events[i].attr.attr; - return platform_driver_register(&arm_ccn_driver); + ret = platform_driver_register(&arm_ccn_driver); + if (ret) + cpuhp_remove_multi_state(CPUHP_AP_PERF_ARM_CCN_ONLINE); + return ret; } static void __exit arm_ccn_exit(void) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/bus-arm-ccn-prevent-hotplug-callback-leak.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