This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled powerpc/ibmebus: Fix device reference leaks in sysfs interface 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: powerpc-ibmebus-fix-device-reference-leaks-in-sysfs-interface.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 fe0f3168169f7c34c29b0cf0c489f126a7f29643 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2016 16:26:00 +0100 Subject: powerpc/ibmebus: Fix device reference leaks in sysfs interface From: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> commit fe0f3168169f7c34c29b0cf0c489f126a7f29643 upstream. Make sure to drop any reference taken by bus_find_device() in the sysfs callbacks that are used to create and destroy devices based on device-tree entries. Fixes: 6bccf755ff53 ("[POWERPC] ibmebus: dynamic addition/removal of adapters, some code cleanup") Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/powerpc/kernel/ibmebus.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ibmebus.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ibmebus.c @@ -266,6 +266,7 @@ static ssize_t ibmebus_store_probe(struc const char *buf, size_t count) { struct device_node *dn = NULL; + struct device *dev; char *path; ssize_t rc = 0; @@ -273,8 +274,10 @@ static ssize_t ibmebus_store_probe(struc if (!path) return -ENOMEM; - if (bus_find_device(&ibmebus_bus_type, NULL, path, - ibmebus_match_path)) { + dev = bus_find_device(&ibmebus_bus_type, NULL, path, + ibmebus_match_path); + if (dev) { + put_device(dev); printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: %s has already been probed\n", __func__, path); rc = -EEXIST; @@ -311,6 +314,7 @@ static ssize_t ibmebus_store_remove(stru if ((dev = bus_find_device(&ibmebus_bus_type, NULL, path, ibmebus_match_path))) { of_device_unregister(to_platform_device(dev)); + put_device(dev); kfree(path); return count; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from johan@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/usb-serial-ch341-fix-modem-control-and-b0-handling.patch queue-4.4/powerpc-ibmebus-fix-further-device-reference-leaks.patch queue-4.4/usb-serial-ch341-fix-control-message-error-handling.patch queue-4.4/usb-serial-ch341-fix-open-and-resume-after-b0.patch queue-4.4/usb-serial-ch341-fix-open-error-handling.patch queue-4.4/usb-serial-ch341-fix-initial-modem-control-state.patch queue-4.4/bus-vexpress-config-fix-device-reference-leak.patch queue-4.4/powerpc-ibmebus-fix-device-reference-leaks-in-sysfs-interface.patch queue-4.4/usb-serial-kl5kusb105-fix-line-state-error-handling.patch queue-4.4/usb-serial-ch341-fix-resume-after-reset.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