From: <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: johan@kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, mpe@ellerman.id.au
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>, <stable-commits@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Patch "powerpc/ibmebus: Fix further device reference leaks" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 17:11:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1484669491241145@kroah.com> (raw)
This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
powerpc/ibmebus: Fix further device reference leaks
to the 4.4-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:
powerpc-ibmebus-fix-further-device-reference-leaks.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.
>From 815a7141c4d1b11610dccb7fcbb38633759824f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2016 16:26:01 +0100
Subject: powerpc/ibmebus: Fix further device reference leaks
From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
commit 815a7141c4d1b11610dccb7fcbb38633759824f2 upstream.
Make sure to drop any reference taken by bus_find_device() when creating
devices during init and driver registration.
Fixes: 55347cc9962f ("[POWERPC] ibmebus: Add device creation and bus probing based on of_device")
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/ibmebus.c | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ibmebus.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ibmebus.c
@@ -180,6 +180,7 @@ static int ibmebus_create_device(struct
static int ibmebus_create_devices(const struct of_device_id *matches)
{
struct device_node *root, *child;
+ struct device *dev;
int ret = 0;
root = of_find_node_by_path("/");
@@ -188,9 +189,12 @@ static int ibmebus_create_devices(const
if (!of_match_node(matches, child))
continue;
- if (bus_find_device(&ibmebus_bus_type, NULL, child,
- ibmebus_match_node))
+ dev = bus_find_device(&ibmebus_bus_type, NULL, child,
+ ibmebus_match_node);
+ if (dev) {
+ put_device(dev);
continue;
+ }
ret = ibmebus_create_device(child);
if (ret) {
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from johan@kernel.org are
queue-4.4/usb-serial-ch341-fix-modem-control-and-b0-handling.patch
queue-4.4/powerpc-ibmebus-fix-further-device-reference-leaks.patch
queue-4.4/usb-serial-ch341-fix-control-message-error-handling.patch
queue-4.4/usb-serial-ch341-fix-open-and-resume-after-b0.patch
queue-4.4/usb-serial-ch341-fix-open-error-handling.patch
queue-4.4/usb-serial-ch341-fix-initial-modem-control-state.patch
queue-4.4/bus-vexpress-config-fix-device-reference-leak.patch
queue-4.4/powerpc-ibmebus-fix-device-reference-leaks-in-sysfs-interface.patch
queue-4.4/usb-serial-kl5kusb105-fix-line-state-error-handling.patch
queue-4.4/usb-serial-ch341-fix-resume-after-reset.patch
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