This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mdio-sun4i: Fix a memory leak
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:
mdio-sun4i-fix-a-memory-leak.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 Wed Feb 28 16:13:29 CET 2018
From: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2018 09:00:09 +0100
Subject: mdio-sun4i: Fix a memory leak
From: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 56c0290202ab94a2f2780c449395d4ae8495fab4 ]
If the probing of the regulator is deferred, the memory allocated by
'mdiobus_alloc_size()' will be leaking.
It should be freed before the next call to 'sun4i_mdio_probe()' which will
reallocate it.
Fixes: 4bdcb1dd9feb ("net: Add MDIO bus driver for the Allwinner EMAC")
Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/phy/mdio-sun4i.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/phy/mdio-sun4i.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/mdio-sun4i.c
@@ -118,8 +118,10 @@ static int sun4i_mdio_probe(struct platf
data->regulator = devm_regulator_get(&pdev->dev, "phy");
if (IS_ERR(data->regulator)) {
- if (PTR_ERR(data->regulator) == -EPROBE_DEFER)
- return -EPROBE_DEFER;
+ if (PTR_ERR(data->regulator) == -EPROBE_DEFER) {
+ ret = -EPROBE_DEFER;
+ goto err_out_free_mdiobus;
+ }
dev_info(&pdev->dev, "no regulator found\n");
data->regulator = NULL;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/mdio-sun4i-fix-a-memory-leak.patch