This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled phy: core: Fix error path in phy_create() to the 3.15-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: phy-core-fix-error-path-in-phy_create.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From e73b49f1c4e75c44d62585cc3e5b9c7894b61c32 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Roger Quadros <rogerq@xxxxxx> Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 11:55:02 +0530 Subject: phy: core: Fix error path in phy_create() From: Roger Quadros <rogerq@xxxxxx> commit e73b49f1c4e75c44d62585cc3e5b9c7894b61c32 upstream. Prevent resources from being freed twice in case device_add() call fails within phy_create(). Also use ida_simple_remove() instead of ida_remove() as we had used ida_simple_get() to allocate the ida. Signed-off-by: Roger Quadros <rogerq@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/phy/phy-core.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/phy/phy-core.c +++ b/drivers/phy/phy-core.c @@ -614,8 +614,9 @@ struct phy *phy_create(struct device *de return phy; put_dev: - put_device(&phy->dev); - ida_remove(&phy_ida, phy->id); + put_device(&phy->dev); /* calls phy_release() which frees resources */ + return ERR_PTR(ret); + free_phy: kfree(phy); return ERR_PTR(ret); @@ -799,7 +800,7 @@ static void phy_release(struct device *d phy = to_phy(dev); dev_vdbg(dev, "releasing '%s'\n", dev_name(dev)); - ida_remove(&phy_ida, phy->id); + ida_simple_remove(&phy_ida, phy->id); kfree(phy); } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from rogerq@xxxxxx are queue-3.15/phy-core-fix-error-path-in-phy_create.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html