This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ARM: OMAP2+: Release device node after it is no longer needed. 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: arm-omap2-release-device-node-after-it-is-no-longer-needed.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 foo@baz Tue Dec 12 13:26:17 CET 2017 From: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2017 07:02:11 -0800 Subject: ARM: OMAP2+: Release device node after it is no longer needed. From: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit b92675d998a9fa37fe9e0e35053a95b4a23c158b ] The device node returned by of_find_node_by_name() needs to be released after it is no longer needed to avoid a device node leak. Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap_hwmod_3xxx_data.c | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap_hwmod_3xxx_data.c +++ b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap_hwmod_3xxx_data.c @@ -3910,15 +3910,20 @@ int __init omap3xxx_hwmod_init(void) if (h_sham && omap3xxx_hwmod_is_hs_ip_block_usable(bus, "sham")) { r = omap_hwmod_register_links(h_sham); - if (r < 0) + if (r < 0) { + of_node_put(bus); return r; + } } if (h_aes && omap3xxx_hwmod_is_hs_ip_block_usable(bus, "aes")) { r = omap_hwmod_register_links(h_aes); - if (r < 0) + if (r < 0) { + of_node_put(bus); return r; + } } + of_node_put(bus); /* * Register hwmod links specific to certain ES levels of a Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/arm-omap2-release-device-node-after-it-is-no-longer-needed.patch queue-4.9/arm-omap2-fix-device-node-reference-counts.patch