This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: ethernet: arc: Fix a potential memory leak if an optional regulator is deferred 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: net-ethernet-arc-fix-a-potential-memory-leak-if-an-optional-regulator-is-deferred.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 foo@baz Thu Mar 29 08:53:48 CEST 2018 From: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2018 23:59:36 +0100 Subject: net: ethernet: arc: Fix a potential memory leak if an optional regulator is deferred From: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 00777fac28ba3e126b9e63e789a613e8bd2cab25 ] If the optional regulator is deferred, we must release some resources. They will be re-allocated when the probe function will be called again. Fixes: 6eacf31139bf ("ethernet: arc: Add support for Rockchip SoC layer device tree bindings") Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/arc/emac_rockchip.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/arc/emac_rockchip.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/arc/emac_rockchip.c @@ -150,8 +150,10 @@ static int emac_rockchip_probe(struct pl /* Optional regulator for PHY */ priv->regulator = devm_regulator_get_optional(dev, "phy"); if (IS_ERR(priv->regulator)) { - if (PTR_ERR(priv->regulator) == -EPROBE_DEFER) - return -EPROBE_DEFER; + if (PTR_ERR(priv->regulator) == -EPROBE_DEFER) { + err = -EPROBE_DEFER; + goto out_clk_disable; + } dev_err(dev, "no regulator found\n"); priv->regulator = NULL; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.18/net-ethernet-arc-fix-a-potential-memory-leak-if-an-optional-regulator-is-deferred.patch