This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled genirq: Release resources in __setup_irq() error path to the 3.18-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: genirq-release-resources-in-__setup_irq-error-path.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From fa07ab72cbb0d843429e61bf179308aed6cbe0dd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2017 00:38:36 +0200 Subject: genirq: Release resources in __setup_irq() error path From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@xxxxxxxxx> commit fa07ab72cbb0d843429e61bf179308aed6cbe0dd upstream. In case __irq_set_trigger() fails the resources requested via irq_request_resources() are not released. Add the missing release call into the error handling path. Fixes: c1bacbae8192 ("genirq: Provide irq_request/release_resources chip callbacks") Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/655538f5-cb20-a892-ff15-fbd2dd1fa4ec@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/irq/manage.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/kernel/irq/manage.c +++ b/kernel/irq/manage.c @@ -1156,8 +1156,10 @@ __setup_irq(unsigned int irq, struct irq ret = __irq_set_trigger(desc, irq, new->flags & IRQF_TRIGGER_MASK); - if (ret) + if (ret) { + irq_release_resources(desc); goto out_mask; + } } desc->istate &= ~(IRQS_AUTODETECT | IRQS_SPURIOUS_DISABLED | \ Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hkallweit1@xxxxxxxxx are queue-3.18/genirq-release-resources-in-__setup_irq-error-path.patch