This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
spi: fix device-node leaks
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:
spi-fix-device-node-leaks.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 8324147f38019865b29d03baf28412d2ec0bd828 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 17:47:05 +0100
Subject: spi: fix device-node leaks
From: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 8324147f38019865b29d03baf28412d2ec0bd828 upstream.
Make sure to release the device-node reference taken in
of_register_spi_device() on errors and when deregistering the device.
Fixes: 284b01897340 ("spi: Add OF binding support for SPI busses")
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/spi/spi.c | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/spi/spi.c
+++ b/drivers/spi/spi.c
@@ -621,8 +621,10 @@ void spi_unregister_device(struct spi_de
if (!spi)
return;
- if (spi->dev.of_node)
+ if (spi->dev.of_node) {
of_node_clear_flag(spi->dev.of_node, OF_POPULATED);
+ of_node_put(spi->dev.of_node);
+ }
if (ACPI_COMPANION(&spi->dev))
acpi_device_clear_enumerated(ACPI_COMPANION(&spi->dev));
device_unregister(&spi->dev);
@@ -1589,11 +1591,13 @@ of_register_spi_device(struct spi_master
if (rc) {
dev_err(&master->dev, "spi_device register error %s\n",
nc->full_name);
- goto err_out;
+ goto err_of_node_put;
}
return spi;
+err_of_node_put:
+ of_node_put(nc);
err_out:
spi_dev_put(spi);
return ERR_PTR(rc);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from johan@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/spi-fix-device-node-leaks.patch