From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:58116 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S935038AbcKOTMJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Nov 2016 14:12:09 -0500 Subject: Patch "staging: nvec: remove managed resource from PS2 driver" has been added to the 4.8-stable tree To: marvin24@gmx.de, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: , From: Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2016 20:10:18 +0100 Message-ID: <1479237018141247@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 staging: nvec: remove managed resource from PS2 driver to the 4.8-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: staging-nvec-remove-managed-resource-from-ps2-driver.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let know about it. >>From 68fae2f3df455f53d0dfe33483a49020b3b758f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marc Dietrich Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2016 13:59:40 +0100 Subject: staging: nvec: remove managed resource from PS2 driver From: Marc Dietrich commit 68fae2f3df455f53d0dfe33483a49020b3b758f3 upstream. This basicly reverts commit e534f3e9 (staging:nvec: Introduce the use of the managed version of kzalloc). Serio struct should never by managed because it is refcounted. Doing so will lead to a double free oops on module remove. Signed-off-by: Marc Dietrich Fixes: e534f3e9429f ("staging:nvec: Introduce the use of the managed version of kzalloc") Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/staging/nvec/nvec_ps2.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/staging/nvec/nvec_ps2.c +++ b/drivers/staging/nvec/nvec_ps2.c @@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ static int nvec_mouse_probe(struct platf struct nvec_chip *nvec = dev_get_drvdata(pdev->dev.parent); struct serio *ser_dev; - ser_dev = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(struct serio), GFP_KERNEL); + ser_dev = kzalloc(sizeof(struct serio), GFP_KERNEL); if (!ser_dev) return -ENOMEM; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from marvin24@gmx.de are queue-4.8/revert-staging-nvec-ps2-change-serio-type-to-passthrough.patch queue-4.8/staging-nvec-remove-managed-resource-from-ps2-driver.patch queue-4.8/drivers-staging-nvec-remove-bogus-reset-command-for-ps-2-interface.patch