This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled gpio: sysfs: fix memory leak in gpiod_sysfs_set_active_low 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_sysfs_set_active_low.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 49d2ca84e433dab854c7a866bc6add09cfab682d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 12:02:46 +0100 Subject: gpio: sysfs: fix memory leak in gpiod_sysfs_set_active_low From: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 49d2ca84e433dab854c7a866bc6add09cfab682d upstream. Fix memory leak in the gpio sysfs interface due to failure to drop reference to device returned by class_find_device when setting the gpio-line polarity. Fixes: 0769746183ca ("gpiolib: add support for changing value polarity in sysfs") 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 | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-sysfs.c +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-sysfs.c @@ -678,7 +678,7 @@ int gpiod_sysfs_set_active_low(struct gp } status = sysfs_set_active_low(desc, dev, value); - + put_device(dev); unlock: mutex_unlock(&sysfs_lock); 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