From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:34873 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751514AbcBMXDZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Feb 2016 18:03:25 -0500 Subject: Patch "spi: fix parent-device reference leak" has been added to the 4.3-stable tree To: johan@kernel.org, broonie@kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: , From: Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2016 15:03:23 -0800 Message-ID: <145540460373185@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled spi: fix parent-device reference leak to the 4.3-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: spi-fix-parent-device-reference-leak.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.3 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let know about it. >>From 157f38f993919b648187ba341bfb05d0e91ad2f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johan Hovold Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 16:16:19 +0100 Subject: spi: fix parent-device reference leak From: Johan Hovold commit 157f38f993919b648187ba341bfb05d0e91ad2f6 upstream. Fix parent-device reference leak due to SPI-core taking an unnecessary reference to the parent when allocating the master structure, a reference that was never released. Note that driver core takes its own reference to the parent when the master device is registered. Fixes: 49dce689ad4e ("spi doesn't need class_device") Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold Signed-off-by: Mark Brown Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/spi/spi.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/spi/spi.c +++ b/drivers/spi/spi.c @@ -1627,7 +1627,7 @@ struct spi_master *spi_alloc_master(stru master->bus_num = -1; master->num_chipselect = 1; master->dev.class = &spi_master_class; - master->dev.parent = get_device(dev); + master->dev.parent = dev; spi_master_set_devdata(master, &master[1]); return master; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from johan@kernel.org are queue-4.3/spi-fix-parent-device-reference-leak.patch