4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ 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; -- 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