This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled gpio: sysfs: fix memory leak in gpiod_export_link 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: gpio-sysfs-fix-memory-leak-in-gpiod_export_link.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 0f303db08df0df9bd0966443ad6001e63960af16 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 12:02:45 +0100 Subject: gpio: sysfs: fix memory leak in gpiod_export_link From: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 0f303db08df0df9bd0966443ad6001e63960af16 upstream. Fix memory leak in the gpio sysfs interface due to failure to drop reference to device returned by class_find_device when creating a link. Fixes: a4177ee7f1a8 ("gpiolib: allow exported GPIO nodes to be named using sysfs links") Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpio/gpiolib-sysfs.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-sysfs.c +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-sysfs.c @@ -630,6 +630,7 @@ int gpiod_export_link(struct device *dev if (tdev != NULL) { status = sysfs_create_link(&dev->kobj, &tdev->kobj, name); + put_device(tdev); } else { status = -ENODEV; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from johan@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.18/gpio-sysfs-fix-memory-leak-in-gpiod_sysfs_set_active_low.patch queue-3.18/gpio-sysfs-fix-memory-leak-in-gpiod_export_link.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