This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled dma-buf/sync_file: hold reference to fence when creating sync_file 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: dma-buf-sync_file-hold-reference-to-fence-when-creating-sync_file.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 30cd85dd6edc86ea8d8589efb813f1fad41ef233 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 15:48:32 -0200 Subject: dma-buf/sync_file: hold reference to fence when creating sync_file From: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 30cd85dd6edc86ea8d8589efb813f1fad41ef233 upstream. fence referencing was out of balance. It was not taking any ref to the fence at creating time, but it was putting a reference when freeing the sync file. This patch fixes the balancing issue by getting a reference for the fence when creating the sync_file. Signed-off-by: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sean Paul <seanpaul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1476899313-22241-1-git-send-email-gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/dma-buf/sync_file.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/dma-buf/sync_file.c +++ b/drivers/dma-buf/sync_file.c @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ struct sync_file *sync_file_create(struc if (!sync_file) return NULL; - sync_file->fence = fence; + sync_file->fence = fence_get(fence); snprintf(sync_file->name, sizeof(sync_file->name), "%s-%s%llu-%d", fence->ops->get_driver_name(fence), Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from gustavo.padovan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/dma-buf-sync_file-hold-reference-to-fence-when-creating-sync_file.patch queue-4.9/dma-buf-update-kerneldoc-for-sync_file_create.patch