From: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> 3.4.107-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ 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> [lizf: Backported to 3.4: adjust filename] Signed-off-by: Zefan Li <lizefan@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c index 011d134..7cb3cb9 100644 --- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c @@ -876,7 +876,7 @@ int gpio_sysfs_set_active_low(unsigned gpio, int value) } status = sysfs_set_active_low(desc, dev, value); - + put_device(dev); unlock: mutex_unlock(&sysfs_lock); -- 1.9.1 -- 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