This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled spi: armada-3700: Remove spi_master_put in a3700_spi_remove() to the 4.10-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: spi-armada-3700-remove-spi_master_put-in-a3700_spi_remove.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From e92f0051c0c65d7bee989884a233cfcd80303bdf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2017 15:49:40 +0000 Subject: spi: armada-3700: Remove spi_master_put in a3700_spi_remove() From: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@xxxxxxxxxx> commit e92f0051c0c65d7bee989884a233cfcd80303bdf upstream. The call to spi_master_put() in a3700_spi_remove() is redundant since the master is registered using devm_spi_register_master() and no reference hold by using spi_master_get() in a3700_spi_remove(). This is detected by Coccinelle semantic patch. Fixes: 5762ab71eb24 ("spi: Add support for Armada 3700 SPI Controller") Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/spi/spi-armada-3700.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/spi/spi-armada-3700.c +++ b/drivers/spi/spi-armada-3700.c @@ -901,7 +901,6 @@ static int a3700_spi_remove(struct platf struct a3700_spi *spi = spi_master_get_devdata(master); clk_unprepare(spi->clk); - spi_master_put(master); return 0; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from weiyongjun1@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.10/scsi-qedi-fix-possible-memory-leak-in-qedi_iscsi_update_conn.patch queue-4.10/spi-armada-3700-remove-spi_master_put-in-a3700_spi_remove.patch